On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 17:12:58 -0700 Pat White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What's all this about a "flagship" camera? Isn't the > MZ-S the flagship of the line? It's the dream camera > that appears to have been designed with most of the hopes > of the PDMLers in mind. What's it missing, a removable > finder? 10fps winder? The only thing that I personally miss in the MZ-S, is multi-spot metering (as in the Olympus OM3, OM4 and their Ti cousins). However seeing how much (or rather little) I use this particular feature in my OM4, I can easilly live without it. I'd guess that I do about 95% of my shots in full-manual exposure and with a single spot metering, the rest in either "point-and-shoot" mode (auto-everything) or with multi-spot metering. However if you press me really hard for a shortcomming, I'd say it would be the lack of multi-spot capability. I'm thus far happy with the MZ-S, which - indeed - seems to have been designed with me and my needs very mucy in mind. However needs may vary Notice, that what I do does not require a lightening snappy AF or a double-digit fps winder. I imagine that if you do motorsports, for example, such might come handy. And I do not know how well the MZ-S would fare in that field.... <SNIP> > Does anyone really want Pentax to > make an F5 equivalent, that costs twice the price of an > MZ-S and takes 8 AA batteries? For that money, just grab > a 67II and be done. I do not care that much about the money - photography is, over the years, an expensive hobby anyways. What I do care about is size and weight. I had an F5 a while back when I was looking for supplements to the dying OM system I use as my primary kit. While I am a pretty big guy (190 cm tall), I found the F5 to be uncomfortably heavy and big - both for use and for carrying. I do lots of travelling, where I bring 3-4 cameras along, so size is really important to me. The F5 is an excellent camera, but my priorities went in favour of small and light. The MZ-S fit that bill, even with the BG-10 attached. Again, this being my preferences - to others, the power of the F5 may be the priority, weight and size being secondary or of no concern. <SNIP> If you want really big, then take a 4x5" :) -- ------------------------------------------- Thomas Heide Clausen Civilingeniør i Datateknik (cand.polyt) M.Sc in Computer Engineering E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.cs.auc.dk/~voop -------------------------------------------
