Originally posted by SCADjacket One question, Automatic Mode (aka Aperture Priority) either doesn't work, or I'm doing it wrong. Anytime I set it to Auto, set the aperture and press the shutter release the mirror pops up, but never comes down.
It doesn't stick in the way of "Sticky Mirror Syndrome" It works fine in everything but Auto... any ideas?
To get the mirror to drop I have to switch the SS knob off of Auto.
Gonna give it some more time before I make the call if I want to buy it from my buddy.
Locking up the mirror is usually a sign of a low battery capacity. I think, that is even included in the manual somewhere.
If the mirror drops down, when you switch Auto off, it probably isn't the sticky mirror syndrome, because that is independent of the shooting mode...
Very long exposure times in Auto-mode do happen, by the way, if there is no film loaded, as the metering takes its reading then off the black pressure plate during exposure.
This OTF metering always led to confusing results, when I attached the LX to a shutter speed measuring device: all the short times (reading off the printed first shutter curtain) were fine, and the longer speeds (reading off the pressure plate) were way off. That confused a couple of engineers, but I never told them the reason and left them confused...
Ben