Re: Behind the counter with digital

[Shaun Canning]

I wasn't gonna get into this but hey, its xmas. The Pz-1p is an infinitely better camera than say an F90X or F80. The only thing the F90X has in it's favor is the vertical grip. This is where Pentax has fallen down repeatedly in the past. The Mz-s appears to be the salve for this dilemma. I used an F5 for a few weeks about 2 years ago, and whilst it is a brilliant camera, I wasn't disappointed to see the end of it. It was about the heaviest damn thing imaginable to carry around. I had a sb-26 flash and normally a 35-70 f2.8 Nikkor on it, and boy was it heavy. The AF speed wasn't noticeably that much faster than the z-1 I also had at the time. Sure, the construction and finish of the F5 was like comparing an LX to a Centon...but I could not justify spending six grand on the F5. The F5 was nice to use, but pretty damn complicated. The lenses I used were not as good as SMC stuff, but were hideously expensive.

All Pentax needs to do now to keep me happy, is release a DSLR that is as good in all departments as the pz-1p is/was. I love mine. The only gripes are the noisy AF, lack of wide area AF, and no battery grip. So if the new DSLR (or FILM slr for that matter) has all this I would be wrapped. I don't want to change to another brand...and not just because of the cost.

To get back to the point, I don't believe the AF speed of comparable cameras was/is that much faster than my pz-1p. Focus tracking is a different bowl of noodles all together. Even so, the pz-1p are not too bad at tracking moving objects, but the F5/Eos-1n are far better (which you would bloody well expect for the extra couple of grand over a pz-1p).

0.02

Cheers

Shaun









Cesar Matamoros II wrote:

I have tried the F4, F5 (just a little bit), the D1X and D1H.  I don't see
what Bruce is getting at.

C�sar
Panama City, Florida

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-- From: P�l Jensen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
-- Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2002 3:05 PM
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-- Bruce wrote:
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-- > Try using an AF SLR that doesn't have Pentax on the front
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-- > see that you don't have to prefocus to get in focus shots.
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-- Neither do you have to with a Pentax AF slr. Have you tried the MZ-S?
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