Hard to say anything about impact resistance - and I am not willing to try anything - but it seems well made. The built-in flash seems to give good exposure in program mode and it seems to balance the ambient illumination quite well, sometimes I use -0.5 stops compensation to get more saturation. In manual mode it works like you describe I suppose. All the best! Raimo Personal photography homepage at http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho
-----Alkuper�inen viesti----- L�hett�j�: Andrea Rocca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Vastaanottaja: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> P�iv�: 10. syyskuuta 2002 16:56 Aihe: MZ-S durability >Hallo everyone, >As I am seriously considering buying an MZS mainly because of its low >weight and magnesium shell - I was wondering if some current user could >clarify a few points for me. The first is the built quality. >Here the Z1P, lovely as it is, has failed me in terms of reliability to the >point that I've decided it is not for me. (Obviously this is a completely >subjective judgement). My main body took a small bump on a stone wall as I >was running (this wasn't a major impact, just a clip) last year in India: >the top LCD display's plastic cover flew off and the mirror locked up. >How much better is the MZS built? Could it be compared to cameras like, say, >the NIkon F100 or Contax G2? I could only handle it in a shop with an >assistant relentlessly trying to sell me a Canon, so it was hard to judge. >(I asked the assistant if I could bash it around and drop it a couple of >times, but he declined.) >The other point is the lack of in- body flash exposure compensation, which >means no compensation for the built- in flash. If the MZS is set to manual, >and exposure compensation is applyed, will this only affect the flash >output? This is how my Olympus OM3 Ti works, and would be fine for me. >Or, if not, does the built-in flash provide some sort of automatic fill- >in in one of the modes, and if so is if effective? Also is there any way of >setting the built in flash to second curtain sync? >I hope this is not too much, and thank you very much in advance. > >Andrea Rocca >London, UK >
