Use manual mode (and hyper something mode which the camera has to update readings). It 
is a nice camera - but MZ-5n is easier to use.
All the best!
Raimo
Personal photography homepage at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen

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Lähettäjä: dosk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Päivä: 27. maaliskuuta 2001 9:02
Aihe: PZ-20 Info request.....

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>But I have one reservation. I've learned to use and like the memory lock
>feature on my ZX-M. Mostly because the 2 segment AE metering on the ZX-M is
>really not all that good when there's lots of shadow contrast... (The center
>weighted metering, available with "M" lenses, is much better IMO). So I've
>learned to meter FA lenses by aiming a bit into the dark side, then memory
>locking, then re-framing. Works very well...
>
>But the PZ-20, at least on Boz's site, does not show as having any memory
>lock option? This might be okay with the 6 segment metering that's available
>on this camera, but what happens with it's spot metering? If you want to
>reframe the picture after spot metering, how do you lock the AE settings? Do
>you have to set and lock them completely manually, or is there perhaps some
>trick here with the Hyper Manual option that I don't know about, that might
>take care of this..?
>
>snip>
>

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