Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/08/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Andrew, I must relate a sad story. A lady came to our store the other week, bought a new Pentax ZX-50, and 45 rolls of film for a European trip. Seven of the rolls were fantastic- she actually got out of the conveyance to take the pictures, and many were very well composed...The other thirty-eight looked like the photos you get when your flash is not synch properly. We had her bring in the camera; it turned out she had poked the shutter curtain with her finger while loading, and knocked a leaf of the shutter out of the track, resulting in a leading curtain never fully opening! BUMMER. Unfortunately, even if a tourist take a relatively decent camera- and the little Pentax is a nice camera for the budget minded, it shows that photography has taken on an aura of- anybody can do it without the least little bit of instruction. People now take their point and shoots and expect to get the same kind of photos they see in National Geographic! I hope your trip went better than this unfortunate lady! Dan dwpost@msn.com