"Doug Brewer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 9:20 PM
Subject: Re: Pentax LZ-A?
> Yeah, I forgot about the slower speeds being unusable on the LX.
>
> I think I may be failing to grasp a key concept here. You said the
mechanical speeds of the LX are only good in case of battery
failure. Are you implying that the FM3A is designed to be usable as
a full time manual? If so, why would they build it as an EM?
Wouldn't the whole idea behind an EM shutter be the ability to keep
shooting if the batteries fail?
Nikon seems to imply that the shutter does not use batteries at all
in manual mode. I think that instead of taking electronic shutter
and adding some manual speeds to it, they took a fully mechanical
shutter and added electronic functionality to it. Essentially,
FM3A still remains a fully manual camera.
I really like Nikon FM series cameras. But that shouldn't be too
surprising since it was originally Nikon answer to the small size
Pentax and Olympus cameras.
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