I understand what you are saying but I do not agree. Up until the
*istD (for me) the controls of each new generation of camera
tended to build on the previous one, so learning a new camera was
easy. The *istD's controls were quite a departure from the MZ-S and
so meant that I had to spend extra time reading the owner's manual
when I would have preferred to be out photographing.
The MZ-S control layout doesn't build on the preceding Z/PZ series.
Nor from the P or the SF series, although there does seem to be a
logical progression from P to SF to Z/PZ to *ist-D and on through
KxD into the new K series .
MZ & *ist (film) seem to make some kind of detour, as do the K-m and K-x.
I owned (and still do) a ZX-5N. When I got the MZ-S I found the
control layout easy to understand, though I missed the shutter speed
knob. But the dial for exposure compensation and auto-bracketing was
clearly an evolution from the ZX-5N. A quick twist of the aperture
ring takes either camera from programme into aperture priority.
I guess it all comes down to what you like and what you don't
like...what you are used to and what you are not used to.
It's taken me three years, but I've finally figured out what those
little twirly wheels on the *istD do and now I like them. My
complaint with them is that both aperture and shutter speed are
controlled with the right hand, leaving the left with nothing to do
but hold the lens, if it's a prime. Its job used to be to twist the
aperture ring. I worry that it might find something else to twist and
get me into trouble.
I guess the solution is to only use zooms.
The *ist-D control layout does follow from the PZ-1/PZ-1p. It has
the same control layout for Hyper-Program; front wheel controls
shutter speed, rear wheel controls aperture.
Speaking of K-x, did I post that I ran across the K-x IN STOCK at
the CompUSA/Tiger Direct Outlet Store in Raleigh? I meant to.
Seems to be plenty of them up here around Halifax!
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Steve Sharpe
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http://earth.delith.com/photo_gallery.html
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