Dear Paal,
> Why do you expect Pentax to give away the MZ-S? Do you expect Nikon to
reduce the F100 by 50%?
> What other camera offer the MZ-S features and a fully heavy duty metal
body for less cash?
If Nikon makes the F-100 50% less, I also will be agree, you know !
For a less price, in France, you can get a Nikon F-90x (N-90X in US, if I
remember rightly)
> What camera is this? The MZ-S don't lack features. It has among the most
sophisticated flash system on the planet with RTF flash synch up to 1/6000s
something no other camera do. It also has a unique dataimpriniting feature
far better than anything else since the data follow the picture.
I thought it was up to 1/180 !
For Data printing, it is a good thing, but it is not really what I use the
most. And when you use inversive mounted, you cannot read the information
(whatever the system is ion the top or between the pictures)
> Admittedly, if you nedd many fps the MZ-S isn't the best thing but then no
Pentax are. If you really need machnegunning images the only game in town is
the EOS-1v or the F5. I wonder then what you do with an MZ-3 in the first
place then...
Guess what I am doing with my MZ-3...?
I never use AF almost of the time. Because I know it cannot allow me to do
picture this way.
But if I can go up to 4 or 5 fps, I may use it in a new way but also the
way I am doing for the moment.
I used to own a Canon ELAN II (EOS 50e), it shows that sometimes, I need
such a high rate.
If I buy a better SLR, is it forbidden for me to wait for such a
possibility.
As I say, I would buy a MZ-S if its price is lower than 933US$. At last, in
France, it might be sold about 20% more than in the US. So you might
understand why I find it too expensive.
The problem is not only that there is some features find missed, but for
the price it would be sold, it is not easy to accept this fact. If I was
richer, I will buy it. But it is not my case, and not the case of most of
Pentaxists, that's why I hope this change.
Will you buy the MZ-S if it was sold less than the price of 999USS$ ? Yes,
but you won't buy it if it was sold at 1299US$. I think Pentax could make
the MZ-S a blockbuster if the price is lower or the features are enhance as
I said.
If you think its price is the good price, so I am wrong whatever I said. But
compare to other SLR (Nikon F-90x, Minolta Maxxum7, or Dynax7, for example)
I find it too expensive.
Selling a SLR is not easy, that is why I hope the MZ-S will show a lower
prie, in order to make new users attracked. If you prefer to stay few user
of Pentax (what I could really understand, because this is a way to be
different), well, I understand the MZ-S is really the perfect Pentax SLR.
For the moment, I consider the MZ-S as the best SLR Pentax has ever design.
BUT I also consider Pentax is able to make a much better flagship. If you
also think so, I will be happy to know.
See you all !
PPS: you know, ^because of writing about the MZ-S, I am thinking of buying
it, even it will not match with my expectations...This is the Pentax
power...8-)
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