Hi Bruce, pardon me but I would like to know: what does the PZ-1p do when you take the aperture ring off A? The only camera of the same generation I have owned was Z-20 and with it you could control the aperture on the lens also (IIRC). All the best! Raimo Personal photography homepage at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen
-----Alkuper�inen viesti----- L�hett�j�: Bruce Dayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Vastaanottaja: Artur Led�chowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> P�iv�: 28. joulukuuta 2001 19:55 Aihe: Re[4]: Aperature Ring On MZ-S >Artur, > >Certainly to each his own. I have owned/used the following Pentax >bodies: MX, SuperProgram, ZX-10, ZX-M, PZ-1p and MZ-S. Of the bunch, >the *only* Pentax that doesn't use the aperture ring for aperture >priority is the PZ-1p. I have used a ZX-50, and because of lack of >aperture coupling (crippling it for older lenses), it requires pushing >the shutter collar back and forth. However, it doesn't have a >dedictated control for aperture vs. shutter, making it extremely >clumsy for manual mode. > >I suspect that since I have come from a long line (including Canon, >Olypus and Nikon) of aperture ring lenses for many, many years, I do >not find using the aperture ring as a problem. When I had my PZ-1p's, >I did use the thumb dial, but did not find it inherently superior to >the other method. Just different. > >I hope that in the future Pentax releases a camera that fits your >style. However, other than lower models, I suspect that the future >has been shown by the lack of success of the PZ-1p. With digital >looming, we may not really see much of anything beyond the MZ-S. >Perhaps the rumored LX II? But that certainly will not function like >the PZ-1p. > >Good luck in your quest. > > >Bruce Dayton - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
