It occurs to me that there is a huge pool of people who are using old
and fairly new manual focusing cameras who resist the move to all
auto cameras because of the ease of control and familiarity of what
they use. There are also, I think, a large pool of people who have
made the move to auto everything because they thought it was progress
and they hate it.
If a company like Nikon can continue to sell FMs why could they not
build a manual focus digital camera with an easy to use metering
system. It would be optimized for use like our beloved OM4Ti, not an
autocam with manual option as an afterthought. Sort of an FM or
OM4Ti with a digital imaging system instead of film. It could have
interchangable screens and a large fixed LCD on the back for just
viewing the recorded image perhaps with a gray scale at the bottom of
it for reference. Seems like it would draw lots of new customers who
would never buy an auto everything camera and provide lots of new
sales for their line of manual focus lenses.
--
Winsor Crosby
Long Beach, California
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