Hi, A friend of mine recently received a new Pentax Espio 105 SW as a wedding present. It is a very nice camera. Small, lighweight, silent, LCD with light,... and a 28-105 zoom. I was going to buy it for him but his brother arrived first. Yesterday I took some pictures with it during a dinner. There wasn't much light so use of flash was required. As it happens with all compact autofocus cameras I have used, when I pressed the shutter halfway I expected to see green light (focus) and red light (flash is going to fire). Besides this, the camera actually fired the flash. When I pressed the button completely, the flash fired again, and the camera made the picture. (It wasn't in anti-red eyes mode). When I moved to a place with more light (but still need of flash), the behavior was the expected one (red and green light but not flash until you actually shoot). My friend told me that it already happenen to him in red eyes mode. The cammera did twice the series of flash firing. Being this a very recent mode... can be a build defect, as it happened with first MZ-S models and its frame overlapping? The other optios is that the camera, in low light situations, fires the flash in order to see what are you composing. But this is a very annoying feature since people think the pisture is already done and moves before you actualli shoot (and the light wasn't so low that I could't see what I was shooting). What do you think? (Of course I told him to ask to the shop as soon as possible). Ah, the user's guide doesn't say anything about this 'pre-fire', only about red and green leds. Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger http://im.yahoo.com - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
