Agreed. The manual is poorly written and somewhat overwhelming.
Not knowing how you shoot, I can tell you how I normally shoot with it. Almost always in the Hyper Program mode. One dial controls aperture (assuming you're using a lens with an 'A' setting), other dial controls shutter. Meter choices are easy. EV +/- is easy. If you don't want to change custom settings or do bracketing, that's all there is to it.
I can categorically state that if you run through changing a custom setting per the menus and repeat it a couple of times, you'll quickly catch on. Within an hour or two this camera will feel like an old friend.
Tom C.
From: Kostas Kavoussanakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Pentax Z-1 Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 10:24:58 +0000 (GMT)
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Trevor Bailey wrote:
> knowledgeable list members. I feel that the Z-1 may be more complex to > drive than the Pentax bodies that I currently use. However, it seems > that perseverance may pay off.
I think (without owning one) that it needn't be more complex that the other bodies; only if you want to use it to its full potential do you need to worry much.
I sit to be corrected,
Kostas
