Joseph wrote:
>I'm not trying to start
> a flame war, or question anyone else's impression of the camera. My
> impression is conditioned by having been using the 1p, and by the size
> of my hands.
My hands a very large and I also come from the Z-1p. he Z-1p don't fit large hands. In
order to use the thumb wheel on the Z-1p I poke my eye.
> Specifically, the individual controls are just too small and/or too
> stiff for hands the size of mine.
Thats weird. Even if my alread long thumb was twice as long it would still fit the
main dial. The point is to keep the thumb straight, don't bend it. On the Z-1p,
regardless if the thumb is held straight or not it still collide with my eye.
>I noticed this first on the metering
> mode and drive switches. Then I found that the selector dial could be
> turned with one finger only with substantial pressure. For ease of use
> it takes two fingers.
This is not the case with my camera. If anything its not stiff enough. I believe the
sample you have used must be faulty.
> It is easy, I discovered, to turn the camera off
> by accident if you use the selector dial with the camera at your eye.
How is this possible? Never experienced it.
> For much the same reason (as others have posted) the autofocus selector
> is essentially unusable.
Its only unusable if don't know how to hold the camera. If you insist of helding the
Z-1p with your left hand its control layout is essentially unusable as well. If cradle
the lens with your let hand, any long fingered person would have index fingers right
on the AF selector. I never take my eye from the viewfinder while selecting AF points.
>The left-side dial also takes two hands.
It doesn't. In fact, its impossible to adjust with two hands. It can easily be
adjusted with one hand (left) whith the camera to the eye. I do it all the time.
Pål
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