On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, William Robb wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark Roberts" > Subject: Re: Enablement, The best 35mm camera ever!!!! > > > > My dream film camera would be an MZ-S with the dual control wheels and > > AF system of the ist-D and the OTF metering of the LX. > > > > I don't *think* I'd buy one, but if they made such a beast I'd be very, > > very tempted. > > I bet I could talk you into it<G> > > Keep the control wheels, if they put those on, you can forget about the > aperture simulator.
Why? The ultimate film camera epitomising Pentax's achievements *has* to support the film lenses. Just like the PZ-1p did. > I would prefer a horizontal shutter, even though it means a loss of high > speed flash sync. I really need that sometimes... I was shooting an outdoor christening in October midday (Crete is a bit tropical sometimes :-) and flash was very useful. It was not nice being limited to 1/100. > I'll take a manual film advance, thank you, but throw a high speed motor > drive into the kit, and make the film advance gears out of metal , rather > than plastic, if you please. No, I don't agree, when I added the winder to the ME-Super I realised that it was pointless; even the SFXn outperformed it. Kostas
