From: Steve Sharpe
At 2:49 PM -0500 12/18/09, John Francis wrote:
>On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 02:30:04PM -0400, Steve Sharpe wrote:
>> At 1:12 PM -0500 12/18/09, John Sessoms wrote:
>>> From: Cotty
>>>> On 18/12/09, John Sessoms, discombobulated, unleashed:
>>>>
>>>>> >"6 megapixel (3072*2048) full 135 film frame sized (24*36 mm)
>>>>>CCD (model
>>>>>> FTF3020-C) from Philips"
>>>>
>>>>> From Boz's site:
>>>>
>>>> <http://www.bdimitrov.de/kmp/bodies/prototypes/MZ-D.html>
>>>>
>>>> Those pictures make me weep.
>>>
>>> Still and all, I like the control layout on the *ist-D, K10, K20,
>>>K7 better.
>>
>> I can only speak for the MZ-S and the *ist-D, but I'll take the layout of
>> the former anytime. Much more intuitive and easy to navigate.
>
>"Intuitive" is only another way of saying "what you are used to".
Exactly.
>
>If you think Av mode is done by moving the aperture ring on the lens,
>then you're going to have a problem switching rapidly between Av and Tv
>(or program) which is what Hyper Program mode offers. It depends on
>what you want; if you want a camera body that works just like a K-1000
>with all your old manual focus lenses the MZ/ZX bodies are great, but
>personally I found the advantages of the new Hyper modes far outweighed
>that.
I understand what you are saying but I do not agree. Up until the
*istD (for me) the controls of each new generation of camera tended
to build on the previous one, so learning a new camera was easy. The
*istD's controls were quite a departure from the MZ-S and so meant
that I had to spend extra time reading the owner's manual when I
would have preferred to be out photographing.
The MZ-S control layout doesn't build on the preceding Z/PZ series.
Nor from the P or the SF series, although there does seem to be a
logical progression from P to SF to Z/PZ to *ist-D and on through KxD
into the new K series .
MZ & *ist (film) seem to make some kind of detour, as do the K-m and K-x.
The *ist-D control layout does follow from the PZ-1/PZ-1p. It has the
same control layout for Hyper-Program; front wheel controls shutter
speed, rear wheel controls aperture.
Speaking of K-x, did I post that I ran across the K-x IN STOCK at the
CompUSA/Tiger Direct Outlet Store in Raleigh? I meant to.
But that really belongs in whatever thread kvetching about Pentax having
shed all their local dealers belongs.
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