Glen Tortorella wrote: > Thank you, Toralf. While the problem may seem minor, I still say: > why have a rather useless (and perhaps inoperable) flash atop my > body? Things such as these tend to irritate me. Yeah, I know what you mean. Even though I'd be quite all right without the popup flash, and sometimes think I'd like the camera even more if it didn't have one, it would quite definitely annoy the heck out of me if it were to break. When I considered buying a camera where it wasn't quite operational, it was of course because I imagined I would be able to fix it.
I really don't think concerns about the flash should hold you back from buying a -5n, though. It probably breaks "easily" if you are reckless or absent minded when it's up, otherwise you should be OK. That said, I also see the attraction of a non-AF body. Personally, I'd be more likely to go for something even more manual, i.e. a body without a motor drive, and possibly with a mechanical shutter - but you have already covered at least on of those, haven't you? > While I have not > made a final decision, I am presently leaning toward getting a second > ZX-M body rather than the ZX-5N. The only differences between the > two are the meter and lens mount. With regard to the meter, I gather > I will become less dependent on it as my skill (and experience) > develop. The problem is that if multi-segment metering is all you can get, the skill won't really help you a lot - as others have pointed out. But perhaps you are planning to use mainly lenses where center-weighted will be selected? > With regard to the plastic vs. metal lens mount ring: I > tend to be extremely careful with the things I own...I have had my ZX- > M body for over three years, and the plastic mount still looks as it > did when I first took the body out of the box. > > Regards, > Glen > > On Sep 6, 2007, at 12:36 PM, Toralf Lund wrote: > > >> Glen Tortorella wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Has anyone had of heard of any problems with the pop-up flash on the >>> ZX-5N (malfunctions, fails to pop up, etc.)? >>> >> It works just find on mine, but I hardly ever use it. Then again, I'm >> not very careful when it comes to packing the camera in a nice camera >> bag and carrying gently around (or rather, not doing just that.) >> >> As suggested by the other response and what I've heard before, it >> seems >> like the most likely type of failure is that a spring or whatever >> breaks >> so that it won't stay up. In fact, I very nearly bought an MZ-5n in >> that >> condition on eBay a couple of days ago, but didn't quite manage to get >> the winning bid. I think someone at some point posted an >> explanation of >> how he fixed such a problem at one point. >> >> This somehow reminds me of some of the spam mails I tend to get. >> Hmmm... >> >> - T >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
