That's what I meant, although I did say it badly. I meant we could have had the same ergonomics in both cameras since the MZ-S and grip was basis the Pentax digital camera with the Phillips 6 MP FF sensor. Here are lots of pics fro those who weren't looking at Pentax 9 years ago:
According to Wikipedia (which is never wrong) the film version did come first: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentax_MZ-D http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentax_MZ-S One look at the MZ-D prototype clearly shows its common basis with the MZ-S: http://www.bdimitrov.de/kmp/bodies/prototypes/MZ-D.html http://www.bdimitrov.de/kmp/bodies/film_MZ-ZX/mzzxS.html http://www.dpreview.com/news/0102/01021106pentaxdigitalslr.asp Amusingly, I began to try to find the MZ-S review in dpreview before I realized how truly dumb that was. On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 2:40 PM, John Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 01:08:48PM +0000, [email protected] wrote: >> The funny thing is that the MZ-S was supposed to be a digital camera. > > No - the MZ-S was supposed to be the top-of-the-MZ-line Pentax film body. > > I presume you're thinking of the first planned Pentax digital camera > (often referred to as the MZ-D), which would have shared much of the > ergonomics and appearance of the MZ-S. But suggesting that this was > driving the design, and the MZ-S was just a film-based offshoot, is > questionable at best. > > I always loved the feel of the MZS with the grip. Sadly, I finally sold mine > to buy the K-7. > > If an MZ-S with grip can fetch anything close to $1000, I may well be > selling mine to get a K-5. I've still got a PZ-1p (and a couple of MXs) > should I ever feel the urge to shoot film again. I prefer the control > style of the PZ bodies (which matches the digital bodies, too) to that > of the MZ bodies. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
