On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 09:51:29 +1000
Marc Lawrence <mlawrence@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Tim [mailto:suchismit@xxxxxxxxx] wrote:
> > I believe Canon does offer MLU even in their mid level
> > EOS cameras (EOS Elan II, etc), or is it mirror prefire,
> > I am not sure.
>
> The EOS 50(E)/Elan II(E) has mirror prefire. I use it a bit,
> whereas I use the self-timer less, so inevitably, because
> of the way to camera functions, I have several self-portraits
> of my back running to get in the scene as the 2 second mirror
> pre-fire goes off instead of the 10 second self-timer.
>
> Shut up! It's a good camera I tells ya! <g>
>
> I prefer the MLU on the OM1, but if I didn't chew my finger
> nails, and had fingers that weren't so short and pudgy, it'd
> be a damn site easier to turn that blasted little knob! :-)
>
I know only of current MF gear, that does MLU. My Pentax MZ-S does
2-second mirror prefire, and the MZ-5n does, IIRC, not.
Nothing comes close to how the OM1's do it....simple and beautiful
*sighs*.
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Thomas Heide Clausen
Civilingeniør i Datateknik (cand.polyt)
M.Sc in Computer Engineering
E-Mail: T.Clausen@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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