Not necessarily, Chuck. You could describe as “dedicated” a switch or dial
that the user had decided to dedicate to a single use. Just because it is
dedicated to a use now does not mean that it has to be so in an hour’s time.
Chris
On 25 Sep 2014, at 14:14, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Your English is superb, Phillipe, but in this case I suggest you refer to a
> dictionary for the definition of "dedicated". The notion of opting out does
> not fit. The aperture ring on an OM MF lens is dedicated to changing the
> aperture. Because it is dedicated to that task there is no way of causing it
> to do something else.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
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