Well, it looks pretty nice to me.
I'll add my comiserations to the loss of the 98% viewfinder,
but other than that I'd be pretty happy with one.
2.5fps is more than enough for me; I don't think I've ever
shot continuous shooting except for auto-bracketing anyway.
1/180th sync is fine for my purposes.. and this new wireless
TTL 1/6000th flash sounds like a winner. Something else to
work out how to get a few of into the house though.... I
guess about three remote flashes will do, as I can use my
Metz 50MZ-5 as the primary one still :)
I love the magnesium body... where's the chrome version! :)
Hopefully it has psuedo-MLU. I'm prettys sure the existance
of the 2sec timer indicates that it does. I can't see the
point of it otherwise.
Data imprint on the edge of frames is great. Much better than
between frames.
Interestingly, as far as new lens features go, the specs say
it is 'KAF2' mount, same as any Z or MZ series so far. Of
course this may not be true, and the introduction of the first
lens with 'new features' might see this become termed KAF3.
It also mentiones mid-roll rewind, though I expect this will
not be leader-out rewind.
Interestingly it also does 5 frame auto-bracketing. Not
that I can say I've ever wanted to do that.
And it has an illuminated lens mount to boot. :)
On the whole it looks like a great camera in a lovely little
package. I find even the Z1-p to be a tad large for my tastes,
and, as someone said, this will be the perfect upgrade from my
MZ-3 (which my wife keeps saying is 'her' camera, and can't I
use one of my older ones today :) .... now we just have to wait
for them to start arriving in stores.
- Peter
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