Heathglen
Registered: May 2007
Posts: 17
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Review Date: Mon, 14 May 2007
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 8
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Positive aspects of the product (pros):
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Autofocus, powerzoom, clean looks, ergonomic
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Cons:
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Heavy, large, powerzoom eats battery life
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This was my first introduction to autofocus. It made me wonder why I waited. Once I got over the learning curve photography became more of an art again. I could concentrate on composition.
It's a heavy film camera to lug around all day. To compensate for this, everything falls under my hand making photography easier.
I'm one of the few who actually uses the powerzoom facility. Never got into the special effects, but I like the powerzooming of the lens (until the draw on the batteries shuts me down).
The FA lenses that came out with the camera varied in quality, but the 28-105 always served me well.
This is not a crippled mount camera. The lenses can mechanically communicate with the body.
The accessory grip does NOT hold batteries. It does make handling better.
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sinoyank
Registered: May 2007
Posts: 1
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Review Date: Wed, 18 July 2007
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 8
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Positive aspects of the product (pros):
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Innovative design
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Cons:
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Poor built quality, plastic body cracked easily.
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Although the design and features of this camera was very advance for its time, the built quality and durability of this pro-sumer class camera came up short. Even though the optics and IQ of my AF 28-105 mm powerzoom lens was quite outstanding, the lens had to be sent back for mechanical repair early on and the powerzooming stopped working altogether after a couple of years. Plastic body of the camera itself spotted cracks from regular usage and powerzoom switch fell off from lens body. In spite of such, I used the camera for 12 years + and ran hundreds of rolls of color film through it before switching over to the digital *ist D when it finally came out. Since then, I continued to use the 28-105 zoom lens with the *ist D to this date (without the powerzoom function).
Using the camera was very intuitive. Apart from its slightly larger size, the ergonomics were good and there were buttons for most everything commonly requiring access. Autofocus feature worked well enough most of the time while other features and operation of the camera were outstanding. The offset hotshoe for external TTL flash was unique of this camera and provided very handy bounce in addition to on-camera flash for very pleasing and balanced indoor illumination.
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teogin
Registered: January 2007
Location: Thessaloniki-Capital of Macedonia, northerrn of Greece. Macedonia is one and GREEK!!!
Posts: 182
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Review Date: Sun, 2 December 2007
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 10
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Positive aspects of the product (pros):
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Built quality, ergonomic, hyperprogram
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Cons:
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absence of vertical handgrip
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I consider as one of the best cameras all over the world and in photography history. Nice camera with full specs, trustworthy, tough body, compatibility with a lot of lenses etc. The only thing that I would need is a vertical grip.
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Amiga-Mazda-Pentax
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