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[OM] Re: E this time (for a change :-> ) not OM

Subject: [OM] Re: E this time (for a change :-> ) not OM
From: Earl Dunbar <edunbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 06:28:51 -0400
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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