Coincidence? I just had the exact same problem with royal gold 100 36. By chance I was watching the display when the film loaded and happened to catch the MZ-S recognizing the ASA as 200. I went ahead and manually overrode the camera's ASA setting and shot the rest of the roll. However, upon completing the roll, I put the roll in 2 other bodies and to my surprise they BOTH interpreted the DX coding as 100ASA. I inspected the canister and there was nothing apparently wrong, and the next roll inserted into the MZ-S from the same batch read correctly.
Jason -----Original Message----- From: Patrick White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 12:51 PM To: pentaxdiscuss Subject: Re: MZ-S hiccup "Alan Chan" writes: >>My MZ-S went bonkers today. >>Next, I reloaded the camera with a roll of royal gold 100. Camera displayed >>an ISO of 200. >Just wondering, did the Z/PZ-1 have many minor problems like the MZ-S when >1st released? Any idea? I don't know about when first released because my PZ-1p isn't a first-release version, but it got confuddled last summer at the Circus Parade. It thought a roll of 100ISO film was 800ISO. It had no problem with me telling it to shoot it underrated though and the slides were fine. In its case, I'm pretty sure it had overheated.. being a black camera in the full sun of a cloudless, midwestern, July day was aparently too much for it.. the camera was almost uncomfortable to hold it was so hot. If Wendy's MZ-S doesn't get confused again, then I wouldn't worry about it. As for the aperture misread, doesn't the lens have a say in the readout? If so, perhaps the lens' electronics overheated and got confuddled rahter than the camera's. later, patbob ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
