On 15/12/06, Mark Cassino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Don't know about the 67 but the guy at the local camera repair shop > warned me not to leave the mirror locked up too long - he claimed that > if the lens is stopped down it will burn out the cloth shutter! Maybe an > urban legend.
A 400/4 focused at the sun might damage the shutter curtains and definitely the film however leaving the mirror up does deplete the battery (I found out the hard way as there is no way to release it but to make the shot from what I can recall). -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
