On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:36 +1000, "John Coyle" <[email protected]> wrote: > Scott, my MZ-S has the film chamber on the left, so that processed film > is > the "right way up": are you sure you are talking about the same camera? > I > know my wife's Optio70 does have the film chamber on the right, so her > films > show the same characteristics you mention. >
No - we were talking about the *ist not the MZ-S. As Scott says, it has the film chamber on the right. Also, I think the *ist was the last Pentax film SLR but maybe the MZ-S was on sale for longer. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Scott Loveless > Sent: Monday, 25 October 2010 3:20 AM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: The film body nobody talks about > > 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 > _'\<,_ > (*)/ (*) > > -- -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - One of many happy users: http://www.fastmail.fm/docs/quotes.html -- 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.
