William Robb wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: April 9, 2001 12:27 PM
> Subject: Re[2]: Photo Expo Japan 2001 - MZ-S and FA31Ltd
>
> > Somebody should inform Contax.
>
> Please expand on that thought Paul. The way 35mm film comes out
> of the box, there is no tool in place for the film to
> communicate with the camera, beyond the rudimentary information
> provided by the DX encoding on the cassette. I would be curious
> to know how Contax has overcome this limitation, using the film
> to communicate the frame it must be advanced to when reloaded
> after being partially used, which was the context of the
> original post.
Duh. It's optical. When you get the film back from the lab, you just
re-spool the unused portion and use it.
Ha.
A month or 2 ago when we discussed this, we had assumed you had to tell
the MZ-S advance to frame X, or the camera would assign it a number on
rewind and you'd punch that number in.
Here's another option: Everytime you rewind a roll before the end, it
remembers what frame you stopped on. When you load a roll, it gives you
the option of starting at the begining, or at one of the specific frame
numbers it remembers. It doesn't know specifically that the roll you
inserted stopped at frame 22, but it does know that *some* roll stopped
at 22, (and maybe another stopped at 10), and queries you as to whether
this is that roll.
tv
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