The camera did have one of those camera+lens raincoats on it. I suspect some moisture found it's way into the lens mount area; the first symptom was that the auto-focus stopped working. I don't recall what was the second thing to start misbehaving (although I think it may have been that the film rewound itself); at that point I just put the camera back in the car, and switched to shooting with the trusty old MX I'd brought along as my second body.
Once the camera dried out everything was back to normal operation; I continued to use that camera for several more years (together, later on, with a MZ-S) until I got myself the just-released *ist-D. On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 05:49:17PM -0400, [email protected] wrote: > John, I never let a camera be exposed w/o some protection when in > inclement weather, a hat or towel or in the case of the 600, > sometimes a jacket. To not provide some sort of shielding is asking > for trouble. > > Don't know if that was the case with your PZ-1P or not. > I had a PZ-1P which saw a phenominal amount of film go thru it - it > was used both for work & pleasure shooting and it never missed a > beat except for a rewind motor that had to be replaced. > > Kenneth Waller > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Francis" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Kirk Tuck likes the K-01 ... > > > >On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:08:29AM -0400, [email protected] wrote: > >>I consider myself somewhat of an 'adventure' photographer and I too > >>can say weathersealing has never made any difference in my > >>photography - rain, sleet, snow, blowing sand etc. > >> > >>IMO its more of a marketing thing than an actual factor. > > > >I've had a camera (a PZ-1p) start behaving very strangely when I was > >photographing during moderate rain. So I just switched to the MX :-) > > > -- > 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.
