Hold on - there is another possibility. I just checked what is actually printed on a
film cartridge and there is a bar code. Can the Minolta read this? If it can why do
they not say so?
All the best!
Raimo
Personal photography homepage at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen
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Lähettäjä: Raimo Korhonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Päivä: 09. huhtikuuta 2001 16:25
Aihe: Vs: Photo Expo Japan 2001 - MZ-S and FA31Ltd
I still wonder how Minolta claims the camera can do it. How the camera can read the
(imprinted?) film data - imprinted data becomes visible only after the film is
developed and you would not need to reuse a developed film, would you?
It seems that the camera assigns a number for each film - like dn1-0004 shown in
PopPhoto article. So you access Custom Function 3 to leave the film tip out and when
reloading somehow tell the camera this number and so it reloads and transports film to
the next unexposed frame. Absolutely useless feature - if you need to write down the
film number, you could more easily write down the frame number and wind on to this
number.
All the best!
Raimo
Personal photography homepage at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen
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