Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > On Nov 26, 2006, at 12:43 PM, Jens Bladt wrote: > >> That's a film change, right? >> Two minutes? >> Perhaps a little less. >> Even memory cards must be exchanged form time to time... > > A 2G memory card on the *ist DS takes less than four seconds to > exchange and holds approx 197 exposures. That's 8.2 minutes of > shooting time with the shutter release held down in continuous mode. > > A 36 exposure roll of film in the MZ-S is completed in 15 seconds. > Let's be optimistic and say it takes a minute to rewind and change > the film. So in the same 8.2 minutes of "continuous" shooting, you > might make up to 40 exposures more with film ... but it would be less > continuous, and I honestly doubt you could do it in practice. You'll > fall behind after the card change, and if the *ist DS started with a > 4G card, you'd not even keep up with the first card. > > Of course, the point is utterly moot. I can see little to no reason > to do such stuff. I often do not expose 40 frames in an entire day's > shooting. > > Godfrey >
A minute would be very slow for a modern film camera with a drive. I can rewind and load my F3/MD-4 in half that (rewind on the MD-4 is well under 10 seconds, 4.5 seconds with the MN-2 that I don't have. I'd expect the MZ-S is in the 10-15 second range given the slower drive). Loading is simple, drop in and pull to the mark, then close. I'd expect to shoot at least 8 rolls in 8 minutes If I'm trying. At 36 exposures that's 288 exposures, about 50% more than the DS can do. -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
