On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 12:20:46 -0000, mike wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
From: "Lucas Rijnders" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 2006/03/08 Wed AM 11:52:04 GMT
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Re: which camera to buy?
Op Wed, 08 Mar 2006 12:33:07 +0100 schreef mike wilson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> Apart from cost, doing away with the redundant aperture ring has
>> serveral
>> other small advantages. A part that can wear and fail is eliminated.
>
> But is replaced by a part (in-body aperture control) that, if _it_
> fails, makes _all_ your lenses useless......
<grin> Even worse, on a DS or DL failure of the command wheel makes the
camera pretty useless :o)
I wasn't going to go there. I think my point is made. 8-)
Failure of the shutter mechanism, or the rewind mechanism, make any film
camera useless. So what? This is a pointless point. Every mechanical
contrivance has critical parts that may fail.
JOhn
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