Edward and Peter, Thank you for pointing out the spot metering on the ZX-L. I went back through all the literature I had downloaded and found no mention of it. This morning I downloaded the owner's manual and finally found it listed in the appendix on Pentax Program functions.
This is probably an odd question. Is the spot metering usable? I've never had spot metering on one of my cameras before, so I'll believe whatever you tell me ;). There have been situations where I thought having spot metering would have helped me. I found a site on the internet which described a Zone Five system using a camera spot meter. Basically, meter the specific object of interest, decide whether the object should be white, light gray, medium gray, dark gray or black, set the exposure compensation accordingly, then compose and snap the shot. Is this kind of usage possible with the ZX-L's spot metering? A slightly braoder question: is there anything the ZX-5N can do that the ZX-L cannot, at least in some fashion? I think I have talked myself back into buying the ZX-L. Thanks! Andrew PDML wrote: > Hello Andrew, > > Friday, July 26, 2002, 9:21:09 PM, you wrote: > > acn> The ZX-L does lack some of the features of the ZX-5N that > acn> "serious" photographers like. Spot metering is one of them. > > ZX-L HAS spot metering, it just hidden in user functions and coupled > with exposure lock. Center veighted metering there is also, but not > selectable - switches to it automatically, when M or K lens mounted. - 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 .
