petit miam wrote:
>
> > 1.) Where in the excerpt of mine that you quoted did
> > I even come close to saying that the MZ-S has
> > "Functions that [I] neither want or need, and that
> > [I] won't use in a million years." Go ahead. I can
> > wait.
>
> OK, call off the dogs. I just felt like having a rant,
> or two. Besides, I didn't quote you. Did you see any
> quote-marks? I just felt in general people were buying
> it, but not using many functions, when they would be
> better suited to a camera with less functions.
>
> > 2.) Don't you shoot with an MZ-30?
> > You know, at least the other guys who claim the old
> > cameras are better actually =use= the old cameras.
> > Being a manual camera snob while shooting with an
> > MZ-30 pretty much shoots your snobbishness in the
> > foot.
>
> I don't really like the MZ-30. It is too automated
> for me. I rarely use the autofocus, or auto-exposure
> modes. I would swap it for an LX anyday.
:^) I'd go out and *buy* a MZ-30 if someone was looney
enough to trade me an LX for it!
> I used my Spotmatic happily for 10 years, until the
> meter broke. ... I would go back to it in a flash if
> I could get it fixed.
Your Spotmatic is not broken! - who needs a stinking meter
for "Sunny 16" flower shots in good light, anyway. I suggest
that you unload that overly automated paperweight and return
to the "True Art of Photography" w/ your Spotmatic. Just pretend
it is a "newer model" H2 and go bananas. :^)
Bill
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