Anthony wrote: But to repeat, those operations that are presently done mechanically to be initiated electronically instead, this would require the lens to have independent drive mechanisms for focus and diaphragm.
REPLY: It could also be as simple as having fully digital camera electronics in a digital camera. It is probably cheaper to engineer and manufacture. Expensive engineering solutions for lenses of an increasing age make less and less business sense, particularly in price sensitive products, as time moves on. At a certain stage they have to cut the link when 20+ years worth of more recent lens production don't demand the solutions regretable as that may be. P�l
