I had actually decided to stay out of this thread due to the fact that it is too silly, but since others have indeed made a thread out of it... If I remember correctly (excuse me if I'm wrong) the original poster have also claimed that you need two hands to turn the main dial and three hands for changing AF point. My MZ-S have spent weeks shaking around in my Zodiac inflatable in 40 knot speed - vibrations enough to shake the filling out of your teeth, without ever experiencing that the switches were accidentally activated. I've used both a tight fitting bag for it and a loose fitting one. Only once have I found the camera in the bag accidentally turned on. To this day I don't know whether I forgot to turn it off or it happened when I put the camera into the bag. Anyway, it has turned out to not be a problem. It is not easy to release the shutter while metering. In fact, the shutter release is designed to avoid this problem. It has the same shutter release feel as the Pentax 67II. There are no modern camera, and damned few old ones, that has a shutter release that are less sensitive for accidental exposure. It represent a great progress from the Z-1p, not to mention the LX with motor drive. In fact, every interface operation with the MZ-S is extraordinarily firm.
Pål Joe: >Here's my experience taking two MZ-S's for fieldwork in Africa and >Europe, and carrying them in a backpack: > >1. The cameras turn themselves on. (Well, actually, the on/off switch >seems regularly to hit something in the pack that switches the camera >on.) > >2. They switch the metering mode (same reason). > >3. They switch exposure mode. Again, same reason. This was a cute trick. >I thought one body was broken when it wouldn't advance the film. Looking >more closely I found that the camera had set itself to multiple >exposures. > >It seems odd that a camera discussed here as tougher than previous >models should need to be protected from its own design. > >I also found that (a) I tend to inadvertently switch the camera off when >I am in the middle of taking several shots, and (b) the shutter switch >is too sensitive, so that I would take shots when all I wanted to do was >autofocus. Previously I wondered what the separate autofocus switch >(under my nose) was for. In three weeks of use, I found that I couldn't >adjust to these problems. - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
