On 17 Dec 2004 at 8:31, Jon Glass wrote: > On Dec 17, 2004, at 1:44 AM, Luigi de Guzman wrote: > > > As I recall, they achieved this by means of a beamsplitter, and they > > didn't > > have a mechanical shutter. > > > Actually, I think they did. I almost bought an E20, and it would black > out before the shot, and I sometimes heard a clicking sound. Their > mechanical shutter was the big limitation in their high shutter speed > of a mere 1/640 sec. time. The E20 also had an electronic-type shutter, > but it only captured every other line, and produced horrible > resolution. Sorry, for being AR... :-)
Actually neither have a mechanical shutter. They are very quiet when shooting (when the synthesized sound is shut off), the only noise is the aperture stopping down and that's also the reason the finder may become darker. The E-20 was able to capture in a progressive scan mode for high speed shooting but could be switched to back to regular low noise interlaced scan mode limiting it to 1/640 sec max shutter speed like the E-10. Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
