----- Original Message -----
From: "J. C. O'Connell"
Subject: RE: Camera engineering (This is signifigant)
NICE COMEBACK - too bad it doesnt
address the subject matter - BTW, if you think you are making
me look retarded, then why are YOU the one trying
run from the postions you took on the
subject matter with a barage of personal
attacks and NO SUBJECT MATTER REBUTALS WHATSOVER??
That's called a "diversion" tactic for losers.
I suggest you post a followup clarifying and explaining the
validity of those positions IF YOU CAN. I for one would
love to see it. I am in the mood for some really
good comedy actually,,,
John, I've answered your questions already, however, in the interest of
redundancy, let me requote your questions, and see if I can't put my answer
into smaller words for you....
You asked:
"how can you say the program AE is important but COMPLETELY
DROPPING AE ALTOGETHER from K/M lenses with zero compatablity
issues is fine?"
As a preamble, I need to point out that AE is still available with K/M
lenses on Pentax digital cameras, so your point about completely dropping AE
is wrong.
You should probably use a Pentax DSLR for a while before you make blanket
statements that are incorrect.
Most consumers want to buy a camera, and not have to do anything other than
push the shutter button. They don't want to worry about, think about, or
have to know about camera exposure settings.
They buy SLR cameras mostly because they get sold on the idea of
interchangable lenses (though most of the time they take the kit zoom lens
and may buy a short telephoto zoom and nothing else), not because they want
more exposure controls that they most likely don't understand, nor want to
understand.
This I know from my years of selling equipment and serving customers at the
retail level.
Programmed AE is important to the bulk of amateur users, because this is how
they want to operate the camera.Any other automatic exposure method still
requires the user to input information into the camera. Users don't want
this, they want complete automation.
So, programmed exposure is important, since it allows the consumer to use
the camera the way he or she wants to use it, shutter or aperture preferred
automatic is not important, since they are exposure modes rarely used by
most camera users.
So, dropping aperture preferred AE as an exposure mode, had they done it,
wouldn't really be a big deal.
However, aperture controlled AE is still available on the Pentax DSLRs,
admitedly in a somewhat modified form, for those who want to use older
lenses, so the feature has not been completely dropped as you like to think
it is.
William Robb
