On 23 Jan 2003 at 10:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi Willem-Jan
>
> > Once every while, I find myself taking two shots in sequence, where
> > only one was intended, in Single Shot Mode, only because I didn't
> > lift my finger in one linear motion from the release button....
>
> If I recall corretly you own an EOS 1, which I do also. I had the same
> problem with mine, but I was able to fix it by adjusting the shutter
> release stroke and tension. In the Canon manual it says that you can
> have a Canon Service Center adapt the "feeling" of your shutter to
> your own personal prefference. Upon reading this I tried to do it
> myself. I had to remove the top cover of the camera body to gain
> access to the shutter button. The "felling" of the shutter is
> determined by the stiffness and the seperation of a couple off metal
> plates which are depressed by the shutter button. Apparently, Canon
> can replace these parts with others with different stiffness. I was
> able to readjust the existing parts, and now I feel I have much more
> control over the shutter button.
Will keep that in mind, but I have been in there once (to restore a
broken EOS-1 I bought cheap), not really looking forward to go in
there again....8-))
> And since we are all busy filling in our wish list:
> I would really like to have an exposure meter that won't expose
> everything as 18% grey. I know Nikon has some kind of RGB-meter, and I
> feel that it must be possible to build a perfect exposure meter.
> Furthermore I'd like to see a camera that can record exposure
> information for every frame. Finally, how about a distance reading in
> the viewfinder, indicating the DOF-range when you press the
> DOF-preview button?
Don't forget automatic focus correction for IR....;))
--
Bye,
Willem-Jan Markerink
The desire to understand
is sometimes far less intelligent than
the inability to understand
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