Anton, By now you have your answers and such, still...
I am busy preparing to work at Ironman Florida this weekend - the gatherings began Tuesday, so I will not get to this for a few days. I have one LX with film at the moment, but of the other three (one at Pentax) two have shutter #1. I will post my findings, C�sar Panama City, Florida -- -----Original Message----- -- From: Anton Browne [mailto:handmaid@;fsmail.net] -- Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 1:10 PM -- -- -- LX Users -- -- If you have the time and inclination, would you carry out a -- test on your cameras please. Below is a paste from a letter -- to Pentax UK regarding my LX. Please carry out a test on -- your LX as described below: -- <snip> -- � Set the camera on a tripod facing steady illumination, -- set the ISO dial to 3200, the shutter to Auto and select an -- aperture that gives an indicated exposure of � of one second -- or less (this is so the shutter fires slowly enough for you -- to hear what�s going on) without film the camera will give -- an exposure of about 2 seconds. -- � Repeatedly fire several exposures and you will hear -- that about four in every twenty are obviously shorter, some -- so short that they must be faster than 1/60th (with 1/60th -- and shorter exposures, the sound is indistinguishable). In -- the field this results in gross underexposure. -- -- As the ISO speed is lowered this happens less and less, -- indeed even at 1600 I fired 20 test exposures and they were -- all fine. Unfortunately much of my photography is low light -- with fast lenses and fast film so this is an issue. I was -- prepared to ditch the camera (or resign it to manual only -- use) as I can�t sell it not working properly but I -- considered your repair charge of �104.98 to be a worthwhile -- investment in having a useable camera.' -- -- IMPORTANT - Would you also let me know which shutter you -- have:- Cock the shutter, lock up the mirror and look through -- the lens mount at the cocked shutter curtain. If it is -- uniformly covered in white dots you have shutter (1) the -- early shutter. If it has two dots 'missing' top and bottom -- centre you have shutter (2) the latest shutter. I suspect -- that this is an anomaly of the later shutter only but I may be wrong. -- -- Your help is much appreciated. -- -- Thank you -- Anton Browne
