>In a message dated 6/4/2002 12:05:23 PM Central Standard Time,
>clintonr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
>>Oh, great -- we'll be seeing a bunch of cameras with holes
>>burned into the curtains again....
>>
>How would that happen? People frequently have the sun in a
>picture they have taken and it does not burn a hole in the
>shutter curtain.
>I have heard of it happening with rangefinders which do not have
>a mirror when they are left lying face up for a while in the sun
>without a lens cap.
>--
>Winsor Crosby
>Long Beach, California
I wondered myself. When the shutter curtains are closed, the
mirror is down. When the mirror is up, the curtains are either
moving or open. How could this happen? I pondered. (I try to
ponder a couple of times a day.)
Then a feeble spark ignited, producing this notion: using the self
timer could do it. The mirror is up and the curtains are closed.
It's only a few seconds, but if you've focused on the sun, it
could happen. Or not. I really don't know. I'll yield to Clint
on how it happens.
Walt
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