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Subject: Updated TL120 information
Date: 2008-01-13 20:27:54
From: John Thurston

I like my TL120 so much, I bought another :)

Ok, it's more than just greed. I'm going to try installing
some 55mm lenses on it and see how I like wider-angle images.
That project is making slow progress but in the meantime,
I've updated my web pages with some information regarding
differences I notice between my early-rev camera and my new one.

You can read the text and see the pictures at:
http://stereo.thurstons.us/updates.htm

Here's the synopsis:

Body
* Metering cell moved from the finder to the body
* More robust battery cover
* Longer spindle for the take-up spool
* 1/60th flash synch speed

Finder
* 45 degree rather than 90 degree
* Diopter adjustment on the eyepiece
* Rubber eye cup
* Backlighting for the spirit level
* Improved retention clip

Accessories
* One piece lens hood
* Protective prism cover

Please let me know _off list_ of any technical or editorial
problems you notice in the pages. (We really don't need to
clutter the list with an announcement that I have a broken
link on page 6.)
________________________________________
John Thurston
Juneau, Alaska
http://stereo.thurstons.us

Subject: Re: Updated TL120 information
Date: 2008-01-14 08:12:16
From: David W. Kesner

John Thurston writes:

> Please let me know _off list_ of any technical or editorial
> problems you notice in the pages.

You don't have anything about the shutter release lock. Is it or is it
not present on this new model.

Also, I have a model that is in between the two you have as mine has the
metal tripod plate and the rings around the spool retention pins.

Thanks,

David W. Kesner

Subject: Re: Updated TL120 information
Date: 2008-01-14 11:33:09
From: John Thurston

David W. Kesner wrote:

> You don't have anything about the shutter release lock
> [in the new TL120]. Is it or is it not present on this
> new model.

The interlocked film-advance/shutter-button is not present
on my new camera. When I asked 3D World about this they wrote:

Regarding the shutter-button, yes, some of the later
cameras had the shutter-button to avoid accidental
exposures, but in the present camera, it doesn't exit any
more since they have redesigned the shutter and made the
center of the shutter lower which can also avoid the
accidental exposures.

The shutter button on my Dec '07 TL120 looks to my eye and
my caliper just like the one on my August '06 camera.

> Also, I have a model that is in between the two you have
> as mine has the metal tripod plate and the rings around
> the spool retention pins.

Do you care to speculate on the purpose of the tripod plate?
My quick-release plate screws nice and snugly up against
my original TL120 (which had no plate). Could there have
been problems with the mount pulling out of cameras and the
plate is meant to reinforce this spot?

--
John Thurston
Juneau Alaska
http://stereo.thurstons.us

Subject: Re: Updated TL120 information
Date: 2008-01-14 13:39:02
From: David Kesner

On Jan 14, 2008 10:33 AM, John Thurston <juneau3d@thurstons.us> wrote:

The interlocked film-advance/shutter-button is not present
on my new camera. When I asked 3D World about this they wrote:

Regarding the shutter-button, yes, some of the later
cameras had the shutter-button to avoid accidental
exposures, but in the present camera, it doesn't exit any
more since they have redesigned the shutter and made the
center of the shutter lower which can also avoid the
accidental exposures.

Any idea what the redesigned shutter is and what they mean about the center being lower?

And no my model does not have the shutter lock.

Do you care to speculate on the purpose of the tripod plate?
My quick-release plate screws nice and snugly up against
my original TL120 (which had no plate). Could there have
been problems with the mount pulling out of cameras and the
plate is meant to reinforce this spot?

Yes, my speculation is that they were just reinforcing the tripod screw hole which used to be be inserted in the plastic body only.

Thanks,

David W. Kesner

Subject: Re: Updated TL120 information
Date: 2008-01-14 13:46:05
From: John Thurston

David Kesner wrote:

> John Thurston wrote:
>
>> The interlocked film-advance/shutter-button is not present
>> on my new camera. When I asked 3D World about this they wrote:
>>
>> Regarding the shutter-button, yes, some of the later
>> cameras had the shutter-button to avoid accidental
>> exposures, but in the present camera, it doesn't exit any
>> more since they have redesigned the shutter and made the
>> center of the shutter lower which can also avoid the
>> accidental exposures.
>
>
> Any idea what the redesigned shutter is and what they mean about the
> center being lower?

I suspect they meant that the shutter _button_ had been
redesigned to have a slightly recessed center (or a slightly
raised, protective perimeter).

That said, I can't detect any difference in the shape of
shutter buttons on my two cameras (by eye or by caliper).
--
John Thurston
Juneau Alaska
http://stereo.thurstons.us