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Stuart Willis
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, February 07, 2005 - 04:20 am: | 
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I recently acquired a near mint sample of the XR-S but a couple of things are not making sense to me. Before one can determine what might need fixing one needs to know exactly what a couple of buttons are "supposed" to do. Cannot find a downloadable User Manual anywhere on the Net.
If there is anyone out there with such a camera model I would be most grateful if he/she would field a couple of questions from me.
Stuart Willis
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Brian Walters
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, February 08, 2005 - 05:11 pm: |
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Stuart
I don't have either this model or a user manual but I do have a review published in a magazine when the camera first came out. Whether it will help I don't know but if you list your questions I'll take a look.
Brian
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Brian Walters
Western Sydney Australia |
Stuart Willis
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, February 09, 2005 - 06:46 am: |
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Thankyou Brian.
Perchance I found the information which I was seeking so I won't encumber you.
One of the interesting elements is that this "first in the world" solar battery top-up SLR required a special rechargable battery (although it will work OK in non-solar-charge mode with 2 x SR44 Silver Oxides.
The batteries are no longer available because the marketplace effectively told Ricoh to stuff them in a dark place where daylight is never seen.
At $100 a pop - that's hardly a surprise.
In response - Ricoh apparently further hiked the price and thus effectively killed off the concept.
Best
Stuart Willis |
Reinhard Pohl
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, June 09, 2005 - 02:39 pm: |
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If you look at http://www.butkus.org/chinon/xr-7/xr-7-splash.htm there is an online manual for the XR-7, I think it is the same camera as the XR-S, just without the solar. The rechargable battery in the XR-S has a bulge on the side witch pushes a switch inside the camera allowing it to be recharged. The normal (not rechargable) cells do not have this bulge and thus there is no danger of them beig charged by the camera. I have replaced the original rechargable cell with a CR1/3N Li-Mn bcell, works fine. Guess I now have a XR-S ;) |
