John, There is a battery in the back to power the date-time lcd you are looking at. The PZ-1 prints the date/time on the frame itself, not between exposures like the MZ-S. Regards, Bob S.
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 1:00 PM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: > From: David J Brooks >> >> Took several shots with a PZ-1 on Saturday. I look at the back of the >> camera to see how i did, but all i get is black. >> >> Any ideas. > > Long tiring day yesterday, I'm kind of slow on the uptake this morning. Had > to get my PZ-1p out of the bag before I figured it out. > > I was thinking about the little window that lets you see the type of film > canister loaded [Provia 100F/36] in it. > > But, while we're on the subject of the PZ-1, there's also some kind of > little LCD display on the back of my PZ-1p with buttons for "Mode, Select & > Adjust". > > They're shown in several of the illustrations for other functions, but > there's nothing about them in any of the instructions. You can see them on > p11, illustration #1 & #3 for "ADJUSTING THE VIEWFINDER DIOPTER" ... a > little horizontal window in the back with three buttons slanted to the right > underneath it. They're right above the panorama switch. > > I'm guessing that's something to do with imprinting date & time on film? > > I don't think it's ever worked on mine. Is there a separate battery > somewhere that powers it? Something in one of the Pentax functions to turn > it on/off? > > Or is it something Pentax put there but never made operational? > > I remember reading somewhere Pentax was supposed to have really good > date/time imprinting functions because they printed between the frames and > not in the image. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
