reid@Glacier.ARPA (Brian Reid) (02/24/85)
I have a Canon New F1 with a power winder. About 2 months ago it developed the nasty habit of burning out its batteries about 1 day after I put them in. Since the 6V lithium battery costs $5, it is impractical to just install a new battery every day as I eat my breakfast. One of these days I will get around to taking it in to a dealer for repair, but they will just send it off to Canon and I won't get it back for weeks, and then Canon will probably tell me it's something stupid that I was doing that I forgot about. Has anybody else ever seen this problem? [For you long distance diagnosticians, I have checked to make sure that the metering system is not turned on, and that the light is not turned on, and I have tried it both with and without the power winder connected. It's nothing obvious.] -- Brian Reid decwrl!glacier!reid Stanford reid@SU-Glacier.ARPA