Now that I look at this I think maybe I should apologize. I generally don't use DX capable cameras and often roll my own B&W. I just didn't notice that the film I was testing with was in an un-encoded canister.
At 11:47 PM 9/20/2002 -0400, you wrote: >Maybe I should clarify. The film canister that allowed dry firing >when the camera was incorrectly loaded was not DX coded. Does anyone else >want to try the other bodies in question with non coded canisters? > >At 05:27 PM 9/20/2002 +0100, you wrote: >>P30T will dry fire regardless of film presence or misfeeds >> >>MZ-M - Peter Alling "I can deliberately mis-load the example of the >>ZX=M I own and it will fire and advance even though there is no film >>movement. Since this camera is based on ZX series I would bet that all >>other ZX/MZ cameras with the possible exception of the MZ-S will work >>the same way." >>MZ-M - Brendan "The MZ-M has the same film system as the other mz >>cameras, normally it won't fire if it sees a misfeed." >> >>MZ-50 will only dry-fire with an empty film chamber, misfeeds or >>misloads lock the camera MZ-30 ditto >>MZ-5N ditto >>MZ-S ditto >>SF-1 ditto >>PZ-20 ditto >> >>Z1(p?) - Jostein - it will only fire with an empty film chamber >>Z1P - Mike - it wont fire without film >>Z1P - Dave Mann - Oh yes it will as long as there is an empty film >>chamber! >> >>67 will dry fire with the 'frame counter trick' >> >>The Z1/Z1P and MZ-M are getting some disagreements here! >> >>But for these disagreements, I am tempted to think that all 'electronic' >>cameras will fire as long as the back is shut and either the chamber is >>empty or the film has fed successfully. Mechnical cameras don't seem to >>care. Just need to resolve the disagreements and see if there are any >>transitional cameras which wont dry fire at all. Peter Alling said that >>there were some which needed a cardboard insert to 'pretend' there was >>film loaded - any model numbers as examples? >> >>Any others?
