Ann.
I find the menu and setup of the D aLOT easier than its Nikon sisters.
Nikon has a ton of sub and subsub menues.
I still get totally confused when i change something.
Just a FYI
Dave
> On Jun 29, 2006, at 12:33 PM, Ann
Sanfedele wrote:
>
> >> What I am curious about is that you seem comfortable enough with the
> >> LX ... What makes the *ist DS so much more difficult to deal with? Or
> >> do you not use the LX very much anymore either?
> >
> > It's the way the bells and whistles work and the existence
> > of them ...
> ....
> > Objectively I see the following things wrong that I imagine
> > anyone would be annoyed with
> >
> > (1) the battery is extra fragile because of the way it is
> > constructed,
> > (2) things that you might
> > want to do quickly require getting into the menu and
> > scrolling (like that on the PRO-1,
> > too, but I've got the pattern in my head now )
> ....
> > Ha - bet you are sorry you asked!
>
> No. I find people's reactions to things very interesting.
>
> Well, different strokes. Personally, I find the Pentax DS very much
> alike to my old Nikon FM/FE2 and use it in much the same way. Of
> course, it has a lot more features which I use when it seems
> appropriate, but overall I just take pictures with it and consider
> the SD card the equivalent of film, only I don't have to do film
> processing. Photoshop and the Epson printer operate as I used a
> darkroom in eons gone past ... only the results are better but I'll
> leave that argument to others to natter over ;-) ... Never could
> stand what photofinishers did with my photos so that option was never
> acceptable for me.
>
> I never read the warnings in the manuals and so far have not
> destroyed either of the bodies. Nor found them unresponsive in the
> same conditions I used all my other cameras over the years so I don't
> know what all the warnings in the manuals are all about. Yet more
> evidence of a deranged society's need for abundant over-
> protectivisms, I suspect.
>
> Curious that you focus on the battery door so much. I've not found it
> to be fragile at all. With 16,000+ exposures on two DS bodies,
> swapping NiMH batteries out every week for charging most of the time,
> I've certainly exercised the door quite a bit on both and it doesn't
> seem to be having any problems that I can tell.
>
> Once you have a DS set up the way you want, you almost never need to
> go into the main menu to do anything. It would be nice if the meter
> pattern selector and focus mode selector was in the Fn menus like the
> ISO and drive modes, but I hardly ever change the settings anymore.
> Most of what I touch is
> - the exposure mode selector for Tv-Av-M,
> - the aperture-shutter-exposure comp thumbwheel and button,
> - the Fn menu for ISO setting,
> - and the AF-MF switch
> (at which point I also use the lens' focusing ring in MF mode). Seems
> pretty close to what my film cameras had except for the AF-MF switch.
>
> Personally, I prefer ring-operated zooms, push-pull zoom controls are
> difficult to use with precision. But I rarely use zoom lenses anyway,
> I have three but only really use one of them (the FA20-35) with any
> frequency. I usually just set a focal length and then start framing
> and shooting ... in other words, it's like having four primes in one
> lens.
>
> Anyway, you like and want what you like and want. "No matter where
> you go, there you are." Enjoy the Pro-1 and don't worry about it.
>
> G
>
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