On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, John Forbes wrote:
On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 14:57:31 -0000, Kostas Kavoussanakis
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Vic MacBournie wrote:
In my opinion, your best bet in the istd if you want to duplicate the
quality of the MZs. It is not up to MZ-S standards but it's not too far
behind. I have both and find the build quality comparable...
I forgot: the interface is also different; on the -S you set the aperture
from the lens, on the -D (all of them) this is only possible in Manual mode
(which reverts to HyperManual).
This is rather misleading. You set the aperture on the camera body, unless
the lens is a K or M lens, in which case you set it on the lens, with the
body set to manual mode. There have been endless fruitless discussions on
the merits of setting the aperture on the body versus setting it on the lens,
but even the die-hards get used quite quickly to doing it on the body. The
only people for whom this is an still issue is people who are still using
film, and have no idea what they are missing.
My description was very accurate; find a hole. What you wrote is
inaccurate. On the -Digis you can set the aperture on the lens
provided it has a ring (so this is not limited to M/Ks). I own and use
exclusively anymore two film cameras where you can set the aperture on
the body; the MZ-50 in particular is *very* cumbersome from the lens,
but I actually like its interface. I thus did not make an argument as
to better, I said different.
Kostas
