Mark, you've obviously never dealt with corporate marketers, you have much more faith than I have.
At 09:02 AM 6/9/03 -0400, you wrote:
Pċl Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Pentax have chosen a simple (like competition) electronic metering >system. Keeping compatibilty would have meen keeping the expensive >system used on the MZ-S or even more expensive
Permitting *stop-down* metering on K and M lenses would have cost NOTHING.
Personally, I think when we really get to examine the *ist-D in person we will find that they have allowed stop-down metering - I expect it may be hidden in a custom Pentax Function.
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