There was a guy on the list a couple years ago who went by "Unca Mikey". He used a film *ist and really loved it's small size. He didn't stick around the PDML for very long, but he was active at photodotnet for while after his stint here. Maybe he's still there.
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Scott Loveless <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Collin Brendemuehl > <[email protected]> wrote: >> *ist >> >> There's one @ KEH. But the price is prohibitive. >> I'd forgotten all about it but for the talk of the MZ-S/D. >> Anyone here have/use one? > > I have one. It has a busted shutter release. It will focus and meter > with a half-press, but won't trip the shutter when pressed all the > way. The shutter release on the battery grip works fine, though, so I > guess it's a portrait camera. > > There is no accommodation for pre-A K-mount lenses. M42 with an > adapter works peachy. > > Aside from the usual complaints which, other than the lack of > _aperture simulator_, I didn't really find all that bad, the film > loads on the right side and feeds to the left. This means that when > you go to the local automated 1-hour processor, all of your pictures > are upside down on the proof sheet and CD. If you sleeve your film > like I do, you'll find that all the numbers are upside down and > backwards. Not a big deal, but if you're anal retentive... > > -- > Scott Loveless > http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ > __o > _'\<,_ > (*)/ (*) > -- Scott Loveless http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ __o _'\<,_ (*)/ (*) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
