Love my ,new to me SP , starting to hate the magic needles. Dave
---- Begin Original Message ---- From: "Brad Dobo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 00:28:26 -0400 To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Dry firing roundup All I know is that I didn't think it was humanly possible to incorrectly load any modern camera, it's so easy you can do it sleeping. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 11:47 PM Subject: RE: Dry firing roundup > Maybe I should clarify. The film canister that allowed dry firing > when the camera was incorrectly loaded was not DX coded. Does anyone else > want to try the other bodies in question with non coded canisters? > > At 05:27 PM 9/20/2002 +0100, you wrote: > >P30T will dry fire regardless of film presence or misfeeds > > > >MZ-M - Peter Alling "I can deliberately mis- load the example of the > >ZX=M I own and it will fire and advance even though there is no film > >movement. Since this camera is based on ZX series I would bet that all > >other ZX/MZ cameras with the possible exception of the MZ-S will work > >the same way." > >MZ-M - Brendan "The MZ-M has the same film system as the other mz > >cameras, normally it won't fire if it sees a misfeed." > > > >MZ-50 will only dry-fire with an empty film chamber, misfeeds or > >misloads lock the camera MZ-30 ditto > >MZ-5N ditto > >MZ-S ditto > >SF-1 ditto > >PZ-20 ditto > > > >Z1(p?) - Jostein - it will only fire with an empty film chamber > >Z1P - Mike - it wont fire without film > >Z1P - Dave Mann - Oh yes it will as long as there is an empty film > >chamber! > > > >67 will dry fire with the 'frame counter trick' > > > >The Z1/Z1P and MZ-M are getting some disagreements here! > > > >But for these disagreements, I am tempted to think that all 'electronic' > >cameras will fire as long as the back is shut and either the chamber is > >empty or the film has fed successfully. Mechnical cameras don't seem to > >care. Just need to resolve the disagreements and see if there are any > >transitional cameras which wont dry fire at all. Peter Alling said that > >there were some which needed a cardboard insert to 'pretend' there was > >film loaded - any model numbers as examples? > > > >Any others? > ---- End Original Message ---- Pentax User Stouffville Ontario Canada http://home.ca.inter.net/brooksdj/ http://brooks1952.tripod.com/myhorses Sign up today for your Free E-mail at: http://www.canoe.ca/CanoeMail
