I have the ZX-5 and used it mostly for high altitude mountaineering.
The sun is extremely bright from being reflected off of all the snow,
and climbers need to wear glacier glasses at all times when the sun
is out. The problem I had was that I couldn't read the exposure
information with my glacier glasses on; glacier glasses are much
darker than normal sunglasses, and the exposure information wasn't
bright enough to be read. A few times I tried taking off my glacier
glasses in order to see the exposure information, and I could easily
read it then. But this was not practical, and so eventually I simply
just pushed the button and assumed the auto exposure would do its
job. Fortunately most of the pictures turned out fairly well, even
in bright sunlight without doing any exposure compensation. I really
like the camera. I got it because its other features make it ideal
for high altitude mountaineering; my only complaint is that of not
being able to see the exposure information with glacier glasses on.
So I think it is a great camera with this one flaw.
Ric
>Have you actually tried this? Supposedly the exposure readout in the 5n is
>the same as the ZX-M, and I haven't had trouble reading reading the display
>on my ZX-M. The only thing I can think of some people don't hold the
>camera as close as I do, and stray light enters through the eye peice and
>causes a lot of flare.
>
>Todd
>
>At 04:17 PM 7/8/01 -0600, you wrote:
> >If you shoot much in bright sunlight, the 5n's design is flawed. You
> >cannot read the exposure information in the viewfinder, and it isn't
> >given on the external lcd. So you don't know your exposure in program
> >mode. This is what kept me from buying one. Still, many like it.
> >
> >Joe
>
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