My feeling all along and after handling a DS in the store yesterday is that those who are happy with something less than the MZ-5n, will be happy with the DS. Basically people who are going to leave it on one of the program modes and not change much of anything very often. Those who like the handling of the MZ-5n and up (PZ-1p, MZ-S, etc) will be much happier with the *istD as it has the settings that would be changed most often on dedicated switches and buttons.
The DS is nice, but I personally would not buy one for me. I would still buy the original D. -- Best regards, Bruce Thursday, December 2, 2004, 4:18:33 AM, you wrote: AF> Great news, Jaume, it takes 11 clicks through menus at worst, 3 at AF> best (hopefully one can wrap scrolling through the recording menu). AF> Pentax placed the metering mode as well as flash compensation at the AF> bottom of the menu page; image tone and size are considered far more AF> useful options (or needed more debugging and the test department AF> required faster access to it!?). :oY AF> Servus, Alin AF> Jaume wrote: JL>> The Ds has a great amount of interesting features but JL>> its simplicity (few wheels and buttons) can make the JL>> access to some of these features too complicated to be JL>> really usable. JL>> Being my current AF camera a MZ-5n, that has a JL>> dedicated and very convenient commandment to change JL>> between spot, multi-zone and CW metering mode, I am JL>> worried about how does it works in the Ds and how JL>> convenient it is to use 'in the field' (I use it a lot JL>> in the 5n). JL>> So, have any of you tried this in a Ds? JL>> Thanks and regards, JL>> Jaume
