On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 10:31 AM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a vague recollection that one of Pentax's later film cameras could be > made to imprint this information on the film, and the engineers were smart > enough to put the data imprint in between the frames.
I don't think that Pentax was first in this, but it was available on the MZ-S "Data Imprinting One of the great new features of this camera is the edge-of-film data imprinting, which can be turned on or off. The film roll sequence number (from 1-99), ISO film speed, and data imprinting brightness are printed on the edge of the leader at the beginning of the film. Exposure mode, metering mode, shutter speed and aperture values, exposure compensation value and whether auto-bracketing or multiple exposure have been used are recorded at the edge of the film for each exposure in a location between the film sprockets. This is done "on the fly" as the film is wound, through use of a small single-digit light-emitting diode array to the top right of the format opening. This is very accurate in image placement--very impressive. The brightness of the letter imprinting can be set." -source: http://shutterbug.com/equipmentreviews/35mm_cameras/0502sb_pentax/ -- 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.
