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From: bea@alice.UucP (Bea Chambers)
Newsgroups: net.rec.photo
Subject: 35mm auto focus
Message-ID: <4352@alice.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 20-Sep-85 17:51:07 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 20 17:51:07 1985
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I was going to reply by electronic mail but the path was so long this
seemed easier. I have a Ricoh FF-90 autofocus 35mm and I am quite happy
with it. The picture quality is good ( ie, a decent lens) and it picks
reasonable exposures. There is a feature which allows for backlighting and
that has worked well. My only complaints are
1- The flash takes too long to be ready, somewhere around 6-8 seconds
2- If you do a lot of flash, the camera eats batteries.
3- Some of my flash close-ups are over-exposed. 
However, there ain't no way to make an auto everything do what my
Nikon FE used to do ( it was stolen on the last Europe trip, sigh).
But the majority of the pictures have been excellent. Good luck.
I think there are newer ones available with faster flash cycle times.


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