Re: OT: Film Oddity

2016-07-12 Thread John
I remembered while cleaning out my inbox. I bought two disposables for a white-water rafting trip on a Saturday. Only had time to shoot with one. The train trip was the next day, Sunday. I used the other disposable for that trip so I could take them both in to be processed on Monday morning.

Re: OT: Film Oddity

2016-07-11 Thread John
Cleaning out my inbox ... I finally figured out why I was using the disposable camera. It was left over from the previous day's white-water rafting trip. Bought 2 but only had time to use 1. So I used the second one for the next day's train trip. On 6/23/2016 11:07 AM, John wrote: I just

Re: OT: Film Oddity

2016-06-24 Thread P.J. Alling
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

Re: OT: Film Oddity

2016-06-24 Thread Mark C
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

Re: OT: Film Oddity

2016-06-23 Thread P.J. Alling
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 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

Re: OT: Film Oddity

2016-06-23 Thread Mark C
I don't think that was too uncommon. Some P 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

Re: OT: Film Oddity

2016-06-23 Thread Bob Sullivan
My little Yashica did the same thing. Regards, Bob S. On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 10:07 AM, John 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