This one's my type--I like, it good!
Written: Feb 13 '01
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Pros: Lets you fully manipulate your picture.
Cons: Not a digital camera... *Har*
The Bottom Line: This camera worked the best in my photo class of about 16 or 20 people, so I wouldn't want any other camera but this.
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| MultimediaMan's Full Review: Pentax ZX-M Body Only 35mm Film Camera |
This camera is basically the photography student's dream. It lets you control your f-stop, shutter speed, it can use manually selected film speeds, it's got a timer, and rapid-shot features. The f-stop, for those who haven't taken photography, is the amount of light the lens lets in, which can make your pictures' depth-of field altered as well. On this camera, you aren't really limited to set numbers. You can easily move the f-stop ring in between the clicks, and the lens acts with the motion. This is perfect for getting the little Heads-up-display light detector in the view perfectly centered. That's another feature I like about this camera. It will actually tell you how much light is needed or is not needed for a scene, and you can adjust settings on the camera for that.
Let me make one thing quite clear: this isn't your basic point and shoot camera. Some of the more innovative pictures I have made with this are: Me punching myself out, and a scene at night, but using the 'bulb' shutter speed, I made it look like about 2:00 P.M.!
The lens and flash are sold separately, at least they were on mine, but the camera does have a hot-shoe for the flash. It runs on two batteries, which can be kinda' expensive, but you only have to change them about once a year or so, unless you use a flash. I've heard that can drain the heck out of camera batteries.
If you haven't had experience using these features, it has automatic modes, so you don't screw up a could-be favorite picture. Just a word of advice don't get to stressed if your pictures don't turn out, it takes time to figure out how these settings affect the pictures, but if you take multiple pictures of the same things with different settings. One of them should turn out.
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Amount Paid (US$): 149.99
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MultimediaMan
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