Re: Lens Fungus and Irradiated Mail - Is the Sky Falling?

2001-10-26 Thread Alexandre Suaide
It they want to kill bacteria and virus they would use electron beams. The amount of radiation should be large but it is not x-ray or gamma-ray radiation. So, this kind of radiation should not cause damage to films as films are sensible to light (x-ray and gamma-ray are a kind of light with much h

Re: K2 shutter vibration question

2001-10-24 Thread Alexandre Suaide
Robert Soames Wetmore wrote: > > > > >I think we also should include the vibration because our heart beats when > >the camera is hand holded and... Alexandre Suaide > > > > I'm not sure if you meant this as a joke, but I actually have this very > proble

Re: Pentax Digital NEWS! Part one

2001-10-22 Thread Alexandre Suaide
aimcompute wrote: > > Bruce wrote: > Probably a dumb question, but I'll ask it anyway. > > I think I understand that a perceived advantage to using a full frame CCD > was that the CCD captures the entire scene entering the camera thru the > lens. Is this correct? > Nope, The full CCD means th