Thank you, Toralf. While the problem may seem minor, I still say: why have a rather useless (and perhaps inoperable) flash atop my body? Things such as these tend to irritate me. While I have not made a final decision, I am presently leaning toward getting a second ZX-M body rather than the ZX-5N. The only differences between the two are the meter and lens mount. With regard to the meter, I gather I will become less dependent on it as my skill (and experience) develop. With regard to the plastic vs. metal lens mount ring: I tend to be extremely careful with the things I own...I have had my ZX- M body for over three years, and the plastic mount still looks as it did when I first took the body out of the box.
Regards, Glen On Sep 6, 2007, at 12:36 PM, Toralf Lund wrote: > Glen Tortorella wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Has anyone had of heard of any problems with the pop-up flash on the >> ZX-5N (malfunctions, fails to pop up, etc.)? > It works just find on mine, but I hardly ever use it. Then again, I'm > not very careful when it comes to packing the camera in a nice camera > bag and carrying gently around (or rather, not doing just that.) > > As suggested by the other response and what I've heard before, it > seems > like the most likely type of failure is that a spring or whatever > breaks > so that it won't stay up. In fact, I very nearly bought an MZ-5n in > that > condition on eBay a couple of days ago, but didn't quite manage to get > the winning bid. I think someone at some point posted an > explanation of > how he fixed such a problem at one point. > > This somehow reminds me of some of the spam mails I tend to get. > Hmmm... > > - T > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
