Bob Walkden wrote: >this lack of choice about when the winder winds is something I became >aware of a couple of years ago when I was shooting in a church in >Romania and realised that I'd rather be the one to decide when to >advance the film, and it bugs me because it's an unnecessary loss of >capability. I'd like to have been able to put the camera inside >my jacket, then wind on, to reduce the noise as much as possible. > >I was shooting with a Contax RX, the 1st real camera I've had which >doesn't have provision for manual film advance, so I'd never >considered this before. It seems to me to be a major piece of bad >design. And it's not as if the capability is difficult to include. >After all, the camera has a multiple-exposure facility so the >disconnect between shutter closing and film advancing is already there.
True. Could you achieve an (admittedly clumsy) workaround by setting the camera to make a double exposure and taking the second shot with the lens cap on when you want to wnd the film? I expect that there wouldn't be many occasions when this convoluted procedure wouldn't be more trouble than it's worth, though. -- Mark Roberts www.robertstech.com - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
