Użytkownik Raimo Korhonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> napisał: >The MZ-S owner´s manual does not mention any contradictions. Can you elaborate?
I can. What is contradictory about MZ-S is that the camera, that is claimed to be a successor of Z-1p on the flagship position, is both more and less advanced than Z-1p. It has great stuff like brand new SAFOX version, P-TTL, HSS, MRC, data imprinting, magnesium housing, BG-10, wireless flash. On the other hand it has slower shutter and flash sync, forces the user to control apertures with the ring only, thus making the implementing of the HyP impossible, amateur class fps rate with no option to boost it as well as amateur exposure compensation and autobracketing precision of 1/2EV, no AF sensor of a cross-type, no trailing curtain sync with the RTF only, no built-in flash compensation, which means also also no flash compensation with the RTF. The Pentax flagship has been strengthen on one side, but seriously weaken on the other. If we compare MZ-S to the other flagships, it appears like a destroyer against battleships - a very capable vehicle, but too weak to hurt them seriously. For me the existence of MZ-S makes sense only if it was meant to pave a trail for something stronger, because it is too much an experimental product. It's a good camera - good enough for me and other intermediate to advanced amateurs, but no more. It can't even be, say, a back-up pro body. And one more thing - my subjective view on the Pentax cameras development. MZ-S is very much like the whole MZ/ZX series - the odd mixture of pros and cons, ups and downs. From K through Z/PZ series each and every series was internally consistent and logically both separated and connected to the previous series. They were all like generations. Each of them has a key feature (or features) that justifies its existenxce as the separate family, as well none of them is overloaded with different, yet very similar bodies. MZ/ZX series appears to me as a total chaos. There are too much bodies in it and these bodies doesn't differ from one another in a logical way, but because of random selection of features. There is no visible strategy in the introduction of the new bodies. MZ-S crowns the whole mess well. I'm really sorry to write it, because I'm a serious Pentax fan and I want my favourite to prosper well. But the hope is the only thing that left for me. Artur - 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 .
