>Well, the MZ-S makes a noise when shaking it. It sounds like a small metal >ball that moves when shaking the camera. It's located somewhere in the >prism according to my ears. Interestingly, according to the Pentax Image >stabilization patent, the camera, not the lenses, have vibration sensors. >Could this be what makes a noise when shaking the camera? Most likely it's >something entirely different, though; maybe its just a sensor for >determining whether the camera is held vertically of horizontally used for >metering. >I believe my former MZ-S also had the same "noise".
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1='20020118963'.PGNR.&OS=DN/20020118963&RS=DN/20020118963 http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1='20020114623'.PGNR.&OS=DN/20020114623&RS=DN/20020114623 There are mention of "KAF III". Could this be the new mount based on KAF2? regards, Alan Chan _________________________________________________________________ Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com
