I played an afternoon with the HP equivalent, so I can't comment on
image quality ( wasn't too interested either as 2 MB is too low for me
anyway).
I liked the ergonomics in good Pentax tradition. Actually, before
this Pentax I never cared too much for digitals - all were missing the
optical TTL viewfinder, a minimum to startle my interest. Another good
part is shutter delay which is very small for this class.
What I dislike though, is the menu fiddling whenever I wanted to
switch between spot meter and averaging (multisegment I suppose).
Generally I found the menu navigation very, very annoying. Autofocus
is another area where the camera is limping. Refocusing on the very
same subject, after focus was certainly acquired, made the AF hunting
forwards and backwards as if it was unable to judge sharpness without
comparing adjacent distances. It's far, far behind current MZ series.
Ah, and I managed to drain a set of AA lithiums in just a couple of
hours, with no flash and little use of the back LCD. This is really
unacceptable: the money I'm saving on films I throw away on batteries.
A good start for Pentax I think, but still far from my conception
about photographic camera.
Servus, Alin
Mark wrote:
ME> The Pentax/HP looks like a wonderful machine. The biggest drawback is that
ME> many reviewers do not like the camera firmware (Digita, licensed from
ME> FlashPoint Technology). The reviews at http://www.megapixel.net, for
ME> example,
ME> rate the firmware in the Pentax EI-200, HP C912, and HP C618 pretty poorly.
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