Re: On a completely different tack - My first LX.

[Tom Ivar Helbekkmo]

I wrote:

> [Keeping the mirror up] is how the LX tells you you've got the lens
> set to a mode the body does not support.  :-)

Actually, of course, it's as has been described by a couple of others
already: you observed the very long exposure that you'll get on
automatic when there's no film (and so little usable reflection for
the OTF metering), and the lens is set to stop down as far as it can.

I confused this with the low battery error condition, where the mirror
locks up and the shutter does not fire.

-tih
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