Hi Peter, A repairman told me once that on the MX, the mirror lock-up flick-a-roo was not "safe" as with a Spotmatic because of some different MX internal mechanism. He meant it was not safe regarding camera precision because some shutter related mechanism could move in the camera after the mirror was up (the MX is a completely different camera the Spotmatic to KX ones). I understood that it was "safe" if you did not move the camera once the mirror is up.
This feature works on all the MX I've tried in the past. But I've never tried to see if there was a speed change after "shaking" the camera with the mirror up. Maybe this would happen only on some MX. Well, I happen to have a few MX at home and a small shutter tester, so I'll do the test tonight and will come back tomorrow with the results. Andre Langevin >I have written up my experiences with the MX's quasi mirror lock-up >feature athttp://ca.geocities.com/spirope/mxmlu.htm�In my experience, it >does not work with all MXs.� I initially thought this might be because >they were old and worn out.� However, I found an article from a 1979 >issue of Modern Photography (when no MX was very old) which also pointed >out that it varies from camera to camera.� I've tried it on about 8 >cameras, and it failed to work on 2 of them.� Is there anybody else who >has experienced this? > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: Click Here >- >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 . -- - 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 .
