My opinion last time was that we basically have a choice. We can have a switch which is a two handed job to turn on, with safetys and such like, or we can have a switch which possibly gets knocked on by mistake. If Pentax made the switch harder to use, you can bet people here would be complaining that they miss shots with the extra time it took to turn the camera on. Every camera I have ever had 'could' turn on accidentally if the switch is knocked. OK perhaps the MZ-S is a little easier than some - mine has never done this.
What I am more concerned about is the 'drive mode' switch. When I slide the camera into my bag, this often gets pushed to multiple exposure mode. That has cost me a few shots in the past and I try to check it whenever possible. Luckily I have only lost shots on that one occasion, but I live in fear of it happenning again. To be honest, Multi=exposure is so seldon used, that I would prefer it be swapped with the PF that controls the mode of the self timer. That way the switch would have Normal, Continuous, Timer and MLU Timer. If the switch got set wrongly then it would no longer be a big deal, like the metering - you can cope and the shot is not generally lost. I normally have MLU Timer set on the PF, and when I want the real timer for family shots, I can never remember which PF it is. Personally I don't care how difficult Multi-exposure is to activate, although its nice to have it on the camera. </RANT MODE OFF> > -----Original Message----- > From: wendy beard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 12 September 2002 02:21 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Vs: MZ-S durability > > > At 19:40 11-9-2002 -0400, you wrote: > > >I am still griping about the MZ-S. I bought two at my lab > (not my $$) > >and took them to Mali last January. I complained that when > you put them > >in a back pack, the camera can turn itself on. (Well, actually, the > >switch is designed so that unintentional pressure against it > can turn > >the camera on.) Several PDMLers lambasted me for having them in a > >backpack. > > > >Okay, they've been sitting in a box in my office for a > couple of months > >without being touched. They are both in Pentax holster-type > bags. And > >guess what? I looked at both of them today, and found one of them > >turned on. Some pressure through the soft case had turned the on/off > >switch to on. > > > >I know there are a lot of MZ-S defenders on the list. But a > camera that > >unpredictably turns itself on strikes me as having a pretty > fundamental > >flaw. > > > >Blast away... > > > >Joe > > It could just be the action of putting them in or pulling > them out of the > case/bag which turns them on. > On my recent trip where I carried the MZ-S around in a > backpack with its > ever ready case on I found sometimes the switch had set itself to > self-timer. Oddly, I didn't notice it trunng itself on. Still > a nuisance > though. > > Wendy > > --- > Wendy Beard > Ottawa, Canada > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > home page http://www.beard-redfern.com > >
