Same lens cap/locked shutter and body cap/locked shutter. Many times
I've removed the lens/body cap and held the LX near a light to hasten
the release.
Many times, when getting organized to take off for a shoot, I'd check
the bodies to see which were loaded. Often the LX had no lens attached,
only the body cap.
I've uttered/mentally yelled rude descriptions of myself as well as
when I later forgot to return the mode selector to "A".(my default
setting).
I remember more than once, being miles down the road after leaving a
shoot and breaking into a queasy "cold sweat" realizing there was no
recollection of having either re-set the mode or (when I switched film
speeds) changed the ISO setting..AAAAGGGGHHHH!!!!
They're few greater feelings, however, than pulling over, taking the
camera out of the bag and discovering you HAD remembered to make the
control changes. VERY RARE!
Jack
--- frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 11/21/05, Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Forgive me but am I missing something here? When I had the LX, I
> seem to
> > remember loading it and firing off the first couple of frames on
> auto.
> > Never seemed a problem. Why switch to a manual speed except of
> course if
> > the light's bad, well, just open the ap all the way?
> >
> > Genuinely,
>
> Dear Mr. Genuinely,
>
> Over the years I got into the habit of putting the lenscap on when I
> changed film, so just in case I drop the camera there's that little
> extra protection for filter rings and the like. As well, I like to
> have the cap on, just so I know the "real photographs" from those of
> the first couple of wind-ons before "0" <LOL>. With a mechanical
> camera it's never been a problem. With the LX, the exposures in the
> dark of the lenscap are infinite. So, I change the shutter speed.
>
> I won't do it that way any more.
>
> -frank
>
> --
> "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
>
>
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