Brian: Do you mean to say that the E has so many buttons, controls and
what-not that it's not as easy and fun to use as an OM? I just read
this article over on Luminous Landscape... never mind.
Earl
Brian Swale wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Something strange happened on the way to the market.
>
>Not greasy latch pawls or whatever, and probably harder to fix, I'd say.
>
>This morning I was taking some E-1 shots as a service for a speaker-to-be
>for our residents' association, and I took a couple in fairly quick succession.
>
>This story did not come from the Goon Show, by the way.
>
>Now, for the benefit of those of us who have never clapped eyes on an E,
>when a photo is taken there is a little red "busy" light at the rear of the
>hand-
>grip that flashes for a couple of seconds while the photo data is being
>written
>to the file storage. Then it is supposed to stop flashing.
>
>I noticed after the 2nd or 3rd shot that the busy light was very busy. In fact
>it
>showed no inclination to stop being red. So, after about 10 - 15 seconds of
>this activity I decided it was time to call a stop, and switched the power
>supply off.
>
>With the power supposedly cut off, the light continued to flash red at me as
>if
>I had done nothing.
>
>After 5 seconds of this, I took the battery out. Then it did stop.
>
>With some trepidation I wondered what revenge would be exacted on me for
>showing it who ran the on/off switch, and reconnected the battery. Then
>turned it on.
>
>All seemed to be normal. No images lost that I could see except perhaps
>one or two I had been trying to make at the start of this fit.. I have no idea
>what I did to cause this display of temperament.
>
>I know that sometimes I do upset it by accidentally pressing more than one
>button at once; some of the front buttons do get in the way of my long fingers
>when I am trying to get the rear display and controls to work, and that seems
>to meet with disapproval.
>
>Have any other E users here had this sort of thing happen?
>
>Brian
>
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