If you think Petersen's Photographic and Shutterbug are great authorities, that may be part of your problem. Did anyone see the MZ-S "test" in the May 2002 Shutterbug? It seemed as if the tester hadn't used an auto-exposure camera before. He says Tv stands for "time priority" (his quotes), and writes that the green button is for "quickly switching from programmed control to photographer control of the automatic exposure", rather than the other way around. He goes on to describe setting the aperture by changing the shutter speed, saying "you could call it aperture priority if you want to think of it as that". Funny, I thought that was shutter priority.
He caps it by writing "A manually set aperture priority is also available.", and describes setting the aperture with the aperture ring on the lens. His understanding of the metering modes was pretty unusual, to put it politely. He also praises the all-mode DOF, saying "This is an improvement over the PZ1-P and ZX-5n, which allow a stop-down preview only in the aperture priority and manual modes". Don't they both allow DOF preview in all modes? Finally, why would you buy two expensive cameras and not spend the time and expense to shoot a roll of film and see what results the main metering system gives, rather than assuming it's worthless, based on some review. I carry an incident meter, and almost every single time, it agrees very closely with the MZ-S's evaluative reading. That's my experience, anyway. Pat White - 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 .
