"Dario Bonazza" <[email protected]> wrote: >Mark Roberts wrote: > >> Steven Desjardins <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>IIRC, film SLRs had B&W screens near >>>the end just to mange all of their electronic options. >> >> I think Minolta had one with a rear-panel LCD. It would give you such >> information as your depth of field - with near and far distance limits >> - for the lens, aperture and focus distance you had set. I'd like to >> have that feature now and I'm surprised no one offers it. > >A few years ago I suggested that to Pentax (I had the occasion to talk to >someone at the parent company in Japan, not an importer). They replied they >did not want to do it because then users will complain that their pictures >are not sharp enough within the given depth of field. >One could argument against that opinion, but I know that if they don't see a >reason, they don't see a reason, hence I gave up after just thinking a few >bad things.
I suspect that the reason you were given may just have been an excuse. But now that Pentax has been taken over by Ricoh perhaps things may be at the Ricoh different. I notice Godfrey reports that his Ricoh camera has this feature. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
