I can tell you that many, many years ago, I switched from Olympus OM-1 to
Pentax MX for this very reason. I was shooting alot of theatre and I
couldn't see the match needle on the OM-1 in the near dark. The MX was just
the ticket with it's lighted meter. The center weighted meter should be
just fine once you get used to it. As for noise, it somewhat depends on how
much ambient noise there is. If it is extremely quiet where you will be
shooting, anything is going to sound loud. But you would gain the ability
to quietly rewind the film without the noise of the winder. Go for the MX -
if you need one, I might be willing to part with one of mine.
Bruce Dayton
Sacramento, CA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nicholas Wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 9:41 PM
Subject: Camera decsion...
> I have somthing of a dilema. I need to get a quieter camera for some work
> that I'll be doing in the near future, and also for when I want to carry
> something other than the pz1p. The requirements that I have is that this
> camera be small and discreet, extremely quiet, easily loadable, and the
> viewfinder data must be able to be read in near dark. The last reason
being
> the main reason my k1000 is not suited for what I'm looking for. So I've
> narrowed it down to three cameras and I'd appreciate any feedback from
> others that have more experience with these cameras. I would be using
manual
> focus lenses on it, taking photos in near dark (ie- fire/candlelight). The
> three cameras that I'm looking at are;
>
> 1) ME Super... very small, very quiet. Don't like the buttons to change
> shutter speed, but I could get over it.
> 2) MX... prolly the closest thing I'll ever get to what I'm looking for,
but
> haven't I seen somewhere that it's actually kindof loud?
> 3) zx5n... very quiet, and small. But how loud is the autorewind? and am I
> correct in saying that there is no way to override autorewind when you
reach
> the end of the roll of film? Actually, the number one reason that I'm even
> considering this camera is because of the built in spot meter.
>
> Well, any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.
>
> --
> Nick
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