On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Tom Trottier wrote:
> Also, why don't the cameras which load automatically initially wind all
> the film to the take-up spool, then start taking pictures, going
> "backwards" - then the camera would know exactly how many frames are
> left. Perhaps some do?
Several P&S's have done it this way. The reasoning was that if the
user opened the camera back before the roll is through, only one frame
would be lost (not a bad idea at all).
*= Doris Fang =*
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