Wowee!
The camera, which I wasn't expecting until tomorrow, came in today's mail, and the new battery, which I wasn't expecting until next week, also arrived today!
First, I tried out the F 35-70mm lens, which came on the PZ-1P, on my K-R dslr, and it seemed to work absolutely fine. Then I remounted that lens back on the PZ-1P, installed the battery, and put in a new roll of film and closed the film door. When I turned the camera ON, the film loaded and showed it was ready to take the first exposure.
Everything seems to be working fine, except that, when I'm ready to take a picture, sometimes is is very hard to push the shutter button down. Once when I pressed it hard enough to fire it fired two shots. Sometimes it seems easier to press the shutter than other times, but I don't know why. Does anyone else know what the issue could be. I don't mind it requiring firmer shutter pressure than other cameras, but if I have to press the button down so hard that the camera really shakes when if finally goes off, I think that is going to cause problems with pictures.
Something I don't think it is--
I am having the problem when the focus confirm light is on, so I don't think the problem is caused by the camera thinking that focus hasn't been achieved yet.
Something it might be related to--
For most of the pictures, so far, I had not looked at what Drive Mode was set to [When I turned the camera on, in displayed the Hyper Program abbreviation, and I assumed everything else would have been reasonable default settings], I didn't notice a symbol related to that on the top display. Anyway, a little while ago I scrolled through the Drive Mode selections and left it set on Single-Frame. Maybe it was set on that already, but I don't remember seeing that symbol earlier, or any symbol in that location.
In addition to the F 35-70, I've tested the camera with my F 35-105 (which has flaky AF and I normally use MF). Next, I'll try it FA f1.4 50mm and my Promaster 28-80 (which says its a Pentax lens in EXIF data). Then I am really hoping it will also work with my Sigma 24-50mm and my Sigma 70-300.
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I skipped ahead to the two Sigmas, after the FA 50mm. I'll work the Promaster in at the end of the roll of film. Unless something unwanted is happening in how the exposures are being taken, that I won't know about until the film is developed, the PZ-1P is having no problem with either the 24-50 or the 70-300 Sigmas.
The shutter button might be working better more of the time now, but it still doesn't reliably go off every time I think it should. Sometimes it seems to work easier if I press it at a slight angle, instead of straight in, but then when I get ready to take the next picture, I can't remember what dad-burned angle that was. Or if I squeeze it down very, very slow-w-w-w-wly, it might fire without much camera shake from my muscle tension the way it might if I'm trying to press as hard as I can.
If it's getting to work a bit better, is it learning my ways, or am I learning its ways? Again, has anybody else seen this kind of behavior out of another Pentax AF film slr's shutter button before?????????????
I've used a lot of cameras over the years. The idea that I have to think about how to press a shutter button at this point, and not be good at doing it most of the time, is a bit unsettling.
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