> > From: Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2007/05/21 Mon PM 11:18:04 GMT > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Don't want to sound too alarmist but... > > > On May 21, 2007, at 3:02 PM, Cotty wrote: > > > The Canon lenses will still be working in 3 years - dunno about 6. > > Electronic AF and AE (and IS inside one lens) mean that there's a > > lot to > > go wrong. I suspect the electronics will die before anything else. > > Why would the electronics die unless you dunked them in water? I've > got an electronic calculator here that's nearly 30 years old and > still working perfectly.
What Cotty said is possibly badly worded but it is true that when/if the electronics (i.e. the custom programmed processor chips) die they are gone. Pretty much anything mechanical can be restored. Unless you have access to the source code for the custom chip you are stuffed if you cannot find a replacement. ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
