Focal plane shutters have less vibration than leaf shutters, so this effect must have always existed. I presume it was masked by other errors in our photographic process, whereas now we can view immense image sizes on screen.

I wonder what happens when a leaf shutter is examined as critically.

Probably Power Zoom is not supported on these cameras. It was dropped a long, long time ago.

Cool it guys...there's a lot of other things to take our attention today that look rather exciting!

Exciting times....

Compared to the *istD the newer cameras are staggeringly fast. The image quality is also significantly better.

It sounds like you will need one with a pentaprism though, to get the best viewfinder quality possible.

This seems to be going way off-topic, so we'll call it a day on this one please and take the banter back to the Pointless Thread?

There have been attractive camera like this for a long time - from Konica, Leica, Olympus and others. The trouble tends to be that the traditional finishes make them very expensive, but the innards don't live up to expectation.

For example, what was the point of a £2000 Cosina that didn't perform as well as a £400 Pentax DSLR? OK, it looked very retro, but we have to expect some quality from it as well.

Even Leica have suffered from this - very expensive cameras that, certainly in digital, offer pedestrian performance. They even had to issue special filters to handle some of the shortcomings of the sensor sensitivity that was causing colour problems.

I am very wary of these very expensive options because if they disappoint then amount invested is significant. In addition, the spares for some of them disappear very quickly as the numbers manufactured are so low.

You need to activate the custom function "using aperture ring" and set it to "permitted" after which you can use the camera in manual mode or Av with stop-down metering.

Catch-in or trap focus is where there is a manual focus lens used and the camera is set to AF. The shutter will only release when the camera thinks it is in focus - that is, when the green hexagon in the viewfinder stabilises.

Excellent advice.

Unfortunately not. Sorry I can't help, but there's nothing in the software to enable a reinstatement.