Re: Smart Settings on the *istD

[Joseph Tainter]

"1. SMART picture mode w/5 auto switching programs"

If you use this, wait until Pentax comes out with its sub-$1000 DSLR, 
supposedly toward the end of this year. At that price level it will be 
aimed at users who would buy the film *ist, and will probably have 
auto-picture mode.

For that matter, the default settings in program mode on the *ist D 
probably give you essentially the same settings as the ZX-7 gives you in 
auto mode. That is, it will take into account the lens focal length and 
subject distance, then give you a shutter speed and f-stop for, say, a 
portrait, a close-up, or a landscape -- or at least, what the designers 
thought should be default settings for these standardized scenes. The 
difference is only that the *ist D won't light up a little icon of the 
picture mode.

Joe