Well my point (which is practically pointless at this point) is that it's
not the camera that's robo, it's the user of the device. Calling other
cameras "robocameras" as an insult is pinning the tail on the wrong donkey.
Tom C.
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>In a message dated 2/14/01 11:32:13 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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>
><< Aren't we talking about robophotogs then? The PZ-1p can certainly do a
>decent job in user mode if all a person wants is properly exposed in-focus
>photos. It's a robocamera too. >>
>
> Mafud wrote:
>It is indelicate, if not downright improper, to call the jewel that is the
>PZ-1p a "robocamera" simply because it is as complete a camera [sans
betters
>AF] as any out there. The PZ-1p has automatic and user functions some of
the
>real "robocameras" still don't have (or just recently got).
>With a battery grip/vertical release, the PZ-1p would have ranked right up
>there. My casual survey of PZ-1p owners was not decisive, but the PZ-1p has
>stood the test of time, even with 1989 technology driving it. Imagine, this
>"serious amateur" camera has 1/250 sec flash sync, 1/8000th sec shutter,
and
>a host of other features in a body so unassuming it cries "amateur." When I
>was still a working PJ who owned a PZ-1p, I can remember the looks, the
>unbelieving stares when the other "pro" (those who didn't know me) would
walk
>up and ask: "What's *that*? "That" being my PZ-1p with my PENTAX 80-200
f/2.8
>FA AF lens wearing its big silver hood:
>"PENTAX" I'd say:
>"GAWD-DAMMN!" they'd say, "PENTAX makes *THAT*?!!"
>When I sold it (to help finance my 67ll), it had more than 41,000 PJ frames
>(and PJ frames on a camera is like dog years on a dog) on it; other than
rub
>marks and slick spots from twiddling camera body wheels, it was still in
>grand condition.
>
>"Robocamera"? No, a complete machine that with few exceptions, can shoot
with
>the best of them today...hell, it's almost as good as its little brothers,
>Super Program and ME.
>
>Mafud
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