By doing this on my ME, Ricoh body, KX, and other manual wind bodies I
usually get about 40 frames on a roll of film. But if you take the film
to a lab, you can't always count on them not exposing or cutting off frames
at the very beginning or end, so don't shoot anything important on them.
My ZX-M always wastes the first 2 frames, plus it will rewind and still
leave a frame occasionally.
Todd
At 11:31 AM 5/15/01 -0800, you wrote:
>
> Ayash Kanto wrote:
>
>> > In all the MZ/ZX series cameras that PENTAX has manufactured, the
>> > autoloading facility advances the film to frame1 as soon as the camera
>> > back is closed. There are two disadvantages with this system.
>
>> > 1. You loose two to three frames. I have always noticed that.
>
> :^) just another example of over automation and too much
> technical brouhaha. I can load my Spotmatics in a dark room
> and start shooting as soon as the tongue of the film is once
> around the take-up spool! Even back in the days of the Super
> Program, dark forces were at work laying the foundations for
> this dilemma currently under discussion by deactivating the
> meter until a certain excess ammount of film had been wound on.
>
> disclaimer: due to another over mechanization, this doesn't
> work well if color film is processed in a color printing machine.
> Best to use Plus-X, Tri-X or Verichrome Pan and soup it yerself
> in a small daylight tank.
>
> m42 -( Forwrd into the Past! )- Bill
>
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>
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