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- From: lakhindr@ESD.3Com.COM (Lakhinder Walia)
- Newsgroups: rec.photo
- Subject: Re: 8008s/801s Questions
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- Date: 26 Dec 92 18:19:40 GMT
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- acs@csri.toronto.edu (Alvin Chia-Hua Shih) writes:
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- >In <lakhindr.725242988@bowmore.NSD.3Com.COM> lakhindr@ESD.3Com.COM (Lakhinder Walia) writes:
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- >>phr@telebit.com (Paul Rubin) writes:
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- >>>The 8008 doesn't have any nonvolatile memory. If you left the
- >>>batteries out long enough for any internal capacitors to discharge
- >>>then put them back, that should have totally reset the camera.
- >>>If it still came up wedged, the batteries may have leaked some
- >>>crap onto the camera electronics and you need a serious repair :-(
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- >>>When I do any important shooting, I take an FM2 along with my 8008.
- >>>That way, if one of them breaks, I still have the FM2...
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- >>well my 8008s did not come with any batteries, when I bought it new.
- >>I am sure it sat in the shop for a while, without any iota of current.
- >>It works fine..! But what is this total-reset ..?
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- >Cameras of today, with all their program modes and electronic frame
- >counters, etc., must retain state information between uses. The Nikon
- >maintains this information in RAM, and keeps it (briefly) between
- >battery changes because of stored charge. If the RAM is allowed to
- >fade, then the camera must choose an "initial state". The choosing and
- >selecting of that initial state is the "total reset" (of state).
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- So what vital info is lost in this case without which a photographer would
- be hampered to use his/her equipment..?
- Also I could not understand why would somebody need any "serious repair" --
- unless those (replacement) batteries have something non-standard..!
- -lakhinder
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- >There is also a "panic sequence" that returns the N8008 to a "standard"
- >program mode. I think it's activated by holding down the front and back
- >wedges of the pie cluster for 1s. See your manual for details.
- >>Thanks
- >>-Lakhinder Walia
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- >ACS
-