Artur,
AL> Oh, but I agree with you:) I have nothing against turning the aperture ring, AL> since I have a Program A... But you'll surely admit that modern, plastic AL> amateur lenses have very fragile and loose aperture rings. I can't afford AL> "*" or Limited series lenses and have to rely on cheaper (plastic) ones. Of AL> course, turning the ring on my SMC M 50mm f/2 or A 28 mm f/2,8 is a AL> pleasure... Besides, how about lenses that have full stops of their AL> aperture? As I wrote in another mail, that means that shutter speed and AEB AL> increments are also full 1 EV... That's no problem with negatives, but how AL> about slides? The flagship should provide very precise exposure, shouldn't AL> it? Sorry, I don't have any plastic lenses with loose aperture rings. You are aware that apertures settings are not necessarily only at click stops (unless it is very cheap indeed), but can be set to anything inbetween the clicks. That means you can provide precise exposure. It does seem odd that we are asking the top of the line camera body to overcome bottom of the line build issues of lenses. One would think that if you are using top of the line bodies that you would be using top of the line glass. If it were me, I would be spending my money first on good glass, and later on top of the line bodies. AL> I'm quite a dawdler, ain't I?:) I simply like clear division - manual is AL> manual, automatic is automatic... I like the style of my MZ-7 very much and AL> since the MZ-6 will go its way, the future may bring something more AL> interesting:) BTW, IMHO the MZ-S shouldn't be called this way - this camera AL> doesn't belong to the MZ line. It should have started a different series. You are probably right on this count. Perhaps the style of the MZ-7 is to help overcome the build quality of the consumer grade lenses. IIRC, Nikon is introducing a cheapo line without aperture rings at all. But I thought we were mostly comparing the PZ-1p dials to the MZ-S. I am going to have to go into my local store to see how much they changed the MZ-7 because I find that my ZX-10's (predecessor) don't really have fast turning dials, just moving the shutter collar back and forth (slow). Bruce Dayton - 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 .
