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| sent on 01 Giugno 2017
Pros: Robustness, well-arranged controls, pentaprism and interchangeable MF slides, ease of use.
Cons: One mechanical emergency time, display system, diaphragm number lighting. It induces you to collect your splendid goals.
Opinion: Used continuously from 1993 to 2006, now kept fondly in the closet, but I count on going back to being black and white when I have time. Slides is enough. Aesthetically beautiful machine, sturdy, all metal like its eternal optics, I have the HP version with MD-4 engine that weighs it down a little bit. Paid in his second-hand time two and a half million with the engine. What to say, I used it more exposing with experience than using its spartan expometer, but it was nice to work like that, it was nice also to focus calmly, make reasoned photos, adjust times and diaphragms with the guineas. He accompanied me around Europe, often loaded in black and white at all sensitivities up to 3200 ASA pulled up to 12800... His flaws reside in the display meter, with those references - poor enough: other reflexes had a list of times in the crosshairs and you could see how many stops you were out in the manual exposure, but as I said I exposed with the rule of F16 in manual and few sometimes I was wrong. Another flaw is the ridiculous button to illuminate with a dim light the number of the diaphragm on the lens, which was then bounced in the crosshairs. Then, in case of a spent stack (which caused scandalization of users in the 80s, accustomed to mechanical reflexes, while now without electricity would no longer work) the shutter snaps with an auxiliary button only at 1/90th of a second. The FM2, for example, was completely mechanical, the stack was only used for the display meter. It was said that the LCD with the " - would run out with the years. Mine still goes. Of course, you had to remember to turn the engine on and off, which gave an ergonomic grip with another more advanced shutter button. There was no vertical shutter button. Curious that by detaching the pentaprism you could, holding the reflex upside down above the head, frame directly on the screen of fiuoco, on inverted sides, and anyway there were very particular pentaprisms similar to a modern display... Who knows how many photojournalists in the crowd will have used this pioneering method. You could buy focus slides of all kinds, with rings of microprisms and broken image that worked with bright optics, otherwise different slides "smooth" for canvases. Regarding the flash, due to the interchangeable pentaprism, to attach it on the reflex it takes a small coasic adapter to the rewind stick on the right. The engine allowed sequential shots at about 4 fps, conforming to the charge of the 8 stylus stacks, which lasted several rolls. The engine quickly rewinded the film, which could save tens of seconds. I've been writing from memory, I haven't used it for 11 years, I could do something wrong. Of course, when the Df came out, I had some temptation to go back to the essence... It means choice of times, diaphragms, manual focus, fixed ISOs and nothing else to set. If I think that every time I turn on the Z7 I find something out of place I cry. |
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