No. We hadn't used the flash at all at that point. We had only taken about 3-4 shots total.
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/15/04 10:34AM >>> On 15 Jul 2004 at 9:17, Steve Desjardins wrote: > Yesterday a colleague of my was using an E-10 to take pictures of > student research groups. The camera had new CR-V3 batteries. She was > getting no images and asked me about it. I took a picture and it was > fine. She tired and nothing happened. Th E-10 does have a very subtle > shutter fire (since no mirror moves) so she held the shutter button > down. Suddenly, wispy smoke started leaking out from under the under > the built in flash. We rebooted the camera but had trouble after that. > Just to try, we switched to 4 AA's and it's behaving fine again. We > both checked the orientation of the CR-V3's and they were fine. The > camera is behaving fine now, but I'd love to knwo what was burning. I assume that the series of pics made before the smoke included using the inbuilt flash? If so I think you will find that the manual states that damage will occur to the camera after a relatively small number of sequential flash exposures (about ten I think). Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998

