Re: Why I DID Buy the MZ-S (now manuals)

2001-07-18 Thread Joseph Tainter
And by the way, kudos to whoever wrote this manual. Doug I haven't seen it yet, but have been appalled at Pentax's other manuals - obvious translations from Japanese, by someone not very good at English. I assume that this problem occurs also in manuals in other languages. After so many

Re[2]: Why I DID Buy the MZ-S (now manuals)

2001-07-18 Thread Bob Walkden
Hi, What always amazed me is that even AFTER the Japanese translator finished putting it into English, they wouldn't even run the translation past an English-speaking editor to clean up the rough edges. That's really hubristic. I think it's rather sporting of them, actually. Life would be

Re: Re[2]: Why I DID Buy the MZ-S (now manuals)

2001-07-18 Thread Jaros³aw Brzeziñski
I wish you could understand Polish - you would certainly laugh your head off reading lousy Polish translations of dumb English translations from incomprehensible Japanese originals. Here in Poland we have those funny manuals accompanying cameras of all brands - no brand is discriminated