Hi! Jostein, my reply interspersed...
> When I write this, there are 42 answers to Shel's post. So far, the only one > to > mention any of the 645 Pentaxes is Boris, who tried my Nii last year. Either > nobody likes it except Boris and me, or it's rare among list members. I really liked the 645. I just didn't remember whether it was N or Nii... Nonetheless, it is indeed great compromise between size and quality... But then again I saw your 645 slides too... > To me, the 645NII is the ultimate film tool. Excellent trade-off between > portability and image size. Decent optics and a dream to handle. It's the tool > I've enjoyed most, ever. In the local club (which you visited) there are few folks that think that Pentax medium format lenses are among the best there is... > Btw, the *istD is the tool I use most, but doesn't even come close in terms of > being a favourite tool. I hate its ergonomics. Not that it is particularly > bad, > but it doesn't fit my hands. I hate the eyepiece that keeps coming off, and a > couple of other minor design flaws. It's not really anything seriously wrong > with it, only those minor nuisances that excludes it from the inner circle. The famous "glove factor". Recently the eyepiece came off again... I cursed and applied the rubber band after all. Now ain't no coming off, the darn piece. It just looks tad odd with the rubber band around it. (Shel, will it be proper to say "skosh odd" instead of "tad odd"? ;-) ) My hands are significantly smaller than yours, and I *love* *istD's ergonomics. There is one flaw though. Well, make it two :). 1. The AE-lock button is easy to confuse with +/- button when holding camera to one's face shooting. 2. The green button is easy to confuse with drive button and flash button in the same situation as above... But, before I tried Z-1 and eventually *istD I was blind to existence of hyper modes... This is true blessing ;-). -- Boris P.S. Jostein, I've send you couple messages off list. You did not reply. Have they got lost? Anything wrong I wrote there?
