Re: FN-FORUM fuji finepix s602z

date posted 25th June 2002 19:42

[EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> just caught up with my emails:
> ---- 8< ------
> Personally, if you need to do print I'd get a large format camera
> (120mm)
> --- 8< --------
> 120mm is actually called medium format - rather than large - sorry to be
> pedantic!

Oops....yes I know, I was thinking in relative terms to 35mm...sorry

> the new canon D60 is retailing at around £2200, the D30, now
discontinued,
> should start becoming available as a 2nd hand item. However there is
a major
> drawback with digital SLRs - the amount of static created by all the
> 'gubbins' inside means that when a lens is removed or changed any dust
> within a 5mile radius gets invited into the camera body! A major
flaw! Sigma
> have brought out a digital SLR that has a glass plate inside the lens
mount
> which sorts this out.

Yes I'm aware of this problem. Isn't there an anti-static shell/device
available or something? (vaguley remember something being mentioned
somewhere along those lines)... You'll be better placed with info on
these things than I am if you work in Jessops (a fine chain of camera
shops BTW!).

ade

BTW. do you know what the second-hand values of a Pentax ME and a Nikon
F1 are (bodies only)?

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