So my opinion of the camera when released has been vindicated by someone
else' experience. It's always nice to have your gut reaction, with no
data at all, turn out to be true. It's too bad, it looked like it
should be a nice camera.
It had the same autofocus module as the *ist-D, better than the three AF
points in the MZ-3 and ZX-5n. I bought an MZ-3 used which lasted about
a year before the shutter went. I really expected it to last longer
than that, but I have no idea what it went through before I got it.
On 6/24/2016 8:48 AM, Mark C wrote:
The *ist just advances the film one frame at at time and rewinds at
the end of the roll.
I bought 3 of them in the past few years. With the battery grip it was
a nice sized camera, compact but not too small,. The AF was pretty
good (though focus points were clustered way too tightly).
It is really a fun camera but the build quality is terrible. None of
my three lasted more than a few months - shutter buttons stop working,
control wheels jam, the plastic covers on switches just crumble away
after a few weeks of light use. And I just kept it around the house
for casual shooting.
Mark
On 6/23/2016 4:26 PM, P.J. Alling wrote:
I think the film *ist did that too, but I never wanted to own one, so
I don't actually know.
On 6/23/2016 3:11 PM, Mark C wrote:
I don't think that was too uncommon. Some P&S cameras would pull all
of the film out of the casset and then respoll it as it was shot. On
the plus side - if the camera was accidently opened the exposed
frames would not be damaged.
On 6/23/2016 12:45 PM, Bob Sullivan wrote:
My little Yashica did the same thing. Regards, Bob S.
On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 10:07 AM, John <sesso...@earthlink.net> wrote:
I just noticed that the way those disposable plastic cameras work is
they have the film pulled all the way out of the cassette and as you
take pictures, the film is rewound into the cassette. All of the
frame
numbers come out back-to-front (i.e. #1 is the last photo & #27 is
the
first).
It makes a difference when you scan the film, because you're going to
have to re-number them in post if you want the images in the correct
order ... which I do, because otherwise it makes my head hurt.
I noticed it because the second photo on the film is a train taken
FROM
the train and there was a river on the wrong side.
But it's not the wrong side, because it's not the second photo,
it's the
next to last photo and it was taken while the train was returning.
It's
the next to last photo on the roll.
Now all I have to figure out is why the hell was I using a disposable
camera and not my regular cameras?
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