----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Adam Maas"
Subject: HyperProgram no longer a Pentax exclusive


> So I've been reading the manual for the new Sony A700 (Very nice camera 
> btw, unlike the unimpressive A100) and noticed that it has PA and PS 
> Program shift modes, which are for all intents and purposes HyperProgram. 
> Turning the aperture dial drops the camera into Av mode, and the shutter 
> dial to Tv mode. It does lack the green button program-line reset however.
>

The first time I saw program shift was on the Minolta Maxxum 7000, circa 
1984, it's hardly a Pentax invention or Pentax exclusive, no matter what the 
marketing mandarins would have you believe.


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