At 19:40 11-9-2002 -0400, you wrote: >I am still griping about the MZ-S. I bought two at my lab (not my $$) >and took them to Mali last January. I complained that when you put them >in a back pack, the camera can turn itself on. (Well, actually, the >switch is designed so that unintentional pressure against it can turn >the camera on.) Several PDMLers lambasted me for having them in a >backpack. > >Okay, they've been sitting in a box in my office for a couple of months >without being touched. They are both in Pentax holster-type bags. And >guess what? I looked at both of them today, and found one of them turned >on. Some pressure through the soft case had turned the on/off switch to >on. > >I know there are a lot of MZ-S defenders on the list. But a camera that >unpredictably turns itself on strikes me as having a pretty fundamental >flaw. > >Blast away... > >Joe
It could just be the action of putting them in or pulling them out of the case/bag which turns them on. On my recent trip where I carried the MZ-S around in a backpack with its ever ready case on I found sometimes the switch had set itself to self-timer. Oddly, I didn't notice it trunng itself on. Still a nuisance though. Wendy --- Wendy Beard Ottawa, Canada mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] home page http://www.beard-redfern.com
