> > From: "John Forbes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/03/07 Tue PM 10:47:02 GMT > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: which camera to buy? > > 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). > > > > Kostas > > 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. > > John
No, John. The only ones who have an issue is those who have an excellent range of non-automatic lenses and do not wish to purchase more. mike ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.ntlworld.com Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software Visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information
