Re: Tempted by the dark side--help!

2001-12-13 Thread Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Apparently, the shutter button is connected to the control circuitry by a flexible printed circuit board that goes over the prism. The board has a tendency to crack at the bends. The cure is to run ribbon cable in place of the board. I believe that

Re: Tempted by the dark side--help!

2001-12-09 Thread Juan J. Buhler
Thanks William and Chris. Now I can safely stay with my Pentaxes. I'll still try an FG, if say, I find one with 50mm lens for $50 or so, which is not unlikely given the few bargains I've been finding lately. But you're right Chris, the Nikon FG-20 seems like a Program Plus more or less, and if

Re: Tempted by the dark side--help!

2001-12-09 Thread Isaac Crawford
- Original Message - From: Juan J. Buhler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 9:58 PM Subject: Re: Tempted by the dark side--help! Thanks William and Chris. Now I can safely stay with my Pentaxes. I'll still try an FG, if say, I find one with 50mm

Tempted by the dark side--help!

2001-12-08 Thread Juan J. Buhler
This afternoon, of all places, I went to the San Jose flea market, a nice place to shoot people in my area. Some people were selling cameras. I saw two dusty ME and ME-Super, a $50 nicely brassed black Spotmatic, and a Nikon FG-20. I picked up the Nikon, and kind of liked the compact size and

Re: Tempted by the dark side--help!

2001-12-08 Thread Chris Brogden
On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Juan J. Buhler wrote: Now I'm tempted to pick a Nikon FG or FG-20 with a 50mm lens to see how it feels. Please, someone say something bad about these cameras so I can keep spending my money on Pentaxes! Tempted towards the Dark Side by an FG and FG-20??? Say it ain't