I bought my MZ-S in February along with the optional battery pack.

The camera feels good in use and with the battery pack the weight is perfect (I prefer my cameras to have a bit of weight to them).

My only complaints/niggles are the eyecup is easy to dislodge and lose and at £14 not a cheap item to replace, although the replacement appears a better fit. The second niggle is the exposure lock button is next to the LCD illumination button, as a Z1 user I keep turning on the LCD light when I want to lock the exposure. Lastly when using my 100mm macro the camera will occasionally refuse to focus from infinity to 1:1 automatically, I have to switch to manual roughly focus the lens and switch back to AF.

After saying the above I must admit I like the camera, the noise doesn't worry me (It's quieter then either my SFX or Z1), focusing is much quicker than any other Pentax cameras I've used. The method of choosing focus point is a pain to start with but now I'm used to it find it comes to hand easily. Best of all is the battery pack you can use AA batteries, and it adds a 2nd shutter release for when taking portrait format pictures.

Rod.