Re: Vs: MZ-S durability

2002-09-12 Thread Steve Desjardins
What can I say? This has rarely happened to me. Maybe, given your habits, this is a bad camera for you. Steven Desjardins Department of Chemistry Washington and Lee University Lexington, VA 24450 (540) 458-8873 FAX: (540) 458-8878 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Vs: MZ-S durability

2002-09-12 Thread Rob Brigham
Original Message- > From: wendy beard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 12 September 2002 02:21 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Vs: MZ-S durability > > > At 19:40 11-9-2002 -0400, you wrote: > > >I am still griping about the MZ-S. I bought two at my la

Re: Re[2]: Vs: MZ-S durability

2002-09-11 Thread Brad Dobo
Yep Bruce, that's true, and nice for the cold winters we get here as well. - Original Message - From: "Bruce Dayton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brad Dobo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 12:07 AM Subject: Re[2]: Vs: MZ-S durabil

Re[2]: Vs: MZ-S durability

2002-09-11 Thread Bruce Dayton
zer bunnyit keep going and going. So BD> it obviously doesn't use much power. Makes me wonder why I got the BD> lithiums. :) BD> Brad Dobo BD> - Original Message - BD> From: "Rob Studdert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BD> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Vs: MZ-S durability

2002-09-11 Thread Brad Dobo
OTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 9:45 PM Subject: Re: Vs: MZ-S durability > On 11 Sep 2002 at 21:33, Doug Franklin wrote: > > > On Wed, 11 Sep 2002 21:20:56 -0400, wendy beard wrote: > > > > > It could just be the action of putting them in or pulling them o

Re: Vs: MZ-S durability

2002-09-11 Thread Rob Studdert
On 11 Sep 2002 at 21:33, Doug Franklin wrote: > On Wed, 11 Sep 2002 21:20:56 -0400, wendy beard wrote: > > > It could just be the action of putting them in or pulling them out of the > > case/bag which turns them on. > > For some reason, the way I pick up and put down the camera is such that >

Re: Vs: MZ-S durability

2002-09-11 Thread Doug Franklin
On Wed, 11 Sep 2002 21:20:56 -0400, wendy beard wrote: > It could just be the action of putting them in or pulling them out of the > case/bag which turns them on. For some reason, the way I pick up and put down the camera is such that I sometimes flip the switch accidentally. TTYL, DougF KG4LM

Re: Vs: MZ-S durability

2002-09-11 Thread wendy beard
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 press

Re: Vs: MZ-S durability

2002-09-11 Thread Doug Franklin
On Wed, 11 Sep 2002 16:00:09 -0600, Joseph Tainter wrote: > 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. That and the placement of the strap lug right beside the shutter release are the o

Re: Vs: MZ-S durability

2002-09-11 Thread Peter Alling
I'm not necessarily a MZ-S defender but they sound pretty predictable to me ;-) At 04:00 PM 9/11/2002 -0600, 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 t

Vs: MZ-S durability

2002-09-10 Thread Raimo Korhonen
Hard to say anything about impact resistance - and I am not willing to try anything - but it seems well made. The built-in flash seems to give good exposure in program mode and it seems to balance the ambient illumination quite well, sometimes I use -0.5 stops compensation to get more saturatio