Feroze wrote: > I am considering purchasing the MZS, but considering it costs the price of a > second hand BMW here is South Africa I obvisouly did some research first on > it, of the sites I came across www.digilander.libero.it/aohc/index.htm had > pics of a DSLR that looked like a MZS with the battery pack, an LCD on the > back but basicly almost like an MZS. Has anyone seen this camera, does it > exist or are the pics fake???
It is the now shelved 6mp digital sibling to the MZ-S. The "real" digital slr is expected by many to be shown at this years Photokina show by the end of the month. >One question for MZS owners, what is the > battery life on the camera, I have a Z70 & an K1000 (my grandfathers) and > well I get about 20 36 rolls fore I have to make the battery man rich again. >From 20-30 rolls. > I shoot pack shots commercially for adverts I design and have been using the > close up filters from kenko on the 38-80 lens that came with the Z70 and now > need to upgrade. Any advice on a good 100mm Macro would be greatly > appreciated. I have to shoot anything from jwellery to cell phones to > groceries. Anything but a Pentax macro lens is a shame... > One comment on the DSLR debate, I use scans from trannies & prints everyday > and always wince when someone provides a image on disk from a digital shot. > Regardless of what camera from the EL1000 to the D1 I have yet to find a > digital image to beat a trannie image. The added problem is lack of > permanance in digital, I will always have my trannies but once the media on > which the image is stored is faulty then all is lost- all it takes is a > static charge to blank a memory stick??? Thats why film cameras will be along for a long time. At least until digital is significantly better than film in image quality. Pål
