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@Entropy512 on the contrary, that was introduced in 1984 with the Super-A/Super-Program.

What you are referrinf to is the aperture control of the 55-300 PLM lens and that is currently the only...

@Entropy512
You say wrong but i am not referring to the autofocus, i am referring to aperture control.

One can perfectly make photographs without autofocus but if the aperture won't open or won't...

@samT6697
For good reviews of Filmscanners Check https://filmscanner.info/en/
The guys also have a shop selling scans and scanners (Scandig.com) in Germany.

@Entropy512
All Pentax digital DA-series lenses, introduced with their first d-slr, the apps,-c *istD are electronically controlled. In fact, even the earlier FA-J series are.

They did carry it...

@fz750 True. With a brand like Leica production costs have little to do with the sales price. Yet the difference in taxing is there. Sales tax is one, and some countries have it high, Netherlands...

I like the design of this q2 but TO ME it has a major flaw. It has no interchangable lenses (and neither a zoom) and i have no use for a 28mm (or 40-50mm or 135mm). For me it would have to be 24mm,...

@entoman
Some are like that. Others just are camera-lovers , admirers of the technical qualities of it, and of the handling of this piece of art. They feel honored to be able to shoot their lowly...

@fz750 What surrealalex says is true. It is
- sales tax (Eu is higher than USA) which, as hammarbytp rightly says is local only
- corporate tax, i don't know the rate in Germany but EU countries...

@MannyZero nowadays the future is not so much in commercial labs offering development but in self-developing films at home or in ones own shop (for the lucky few that sell their photography shot on...

The connection between Asahi and Zeiss is however older. Pentax obtained their name from Zeiss East which also had made a prototype named...

Mostly correct but...
The Zeiss (West) - Asahi Opt.Co. cooperation started only after Zeiss had already closed their Zeiss-Ikon brand. To sell their lenses they needed a camera-manufacturer. Pentax...

Canon and Nikon go the dinosaur way. Every new generation is more powerful, faster, heavier, bigger. This applies to their SLR's, their lenses and probably will to their mirrorless cameras...

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Olympus also was focused to small, portable, demonstrated that with their half-frame Pen-series and their OM-series. The last "OM" camera's, the OM-707, OM-101 &OM-2000, all made by...

Nikon will never do that. They made their success with professional BIG cameras like the F, F2, F3, F4, F5 and even bigger and heavier D-slr's, D1, ... D4. Same goes for Canon with the F-1, F-1n,...

@Roland Karlsson. What they could remove is autofocus. Certain users would certainly appreciate that. If Pentax is going to be niche it may work. Leica's M doesn't have autofocus either.

Another...

No good camera was cheap in those days.

There never was a Takumar 50mm 1.8
The first was a 50/3.5 which as followed by a 58/2.4, 58/2.0 and 55/2.2.
The 55/2.2 was the basis for the 55/2.0 and 55/1.8 but after the 50/3.5 was discontinued...

@epambos
For video the wider aspect is fine. After all, TV's are wider, and even smartphones are wider now. (With tablets it depens on the brand, Apple is not as wide as Samsung and others) still,...

Now one can call it a matter of taste but
the 4:3 aspect ratio is actually the best thing of the Four-Thirds and micro-FT systems.

Nikon started it's rangefinder line on 24×32mm and because of...

The IS series were developed together with Ricoh and actually manufactured by Cosina.
Some Ricoh models were rebadged as Olympus, especially the later Mirai models and the Olympus AZ-300 was also...