I currently use a D340L for underwater photography and am looking to upgrade to the C-2000Z. On the 340, I use CAME to set the powerdown to an hour because I don't have control of anything except the shutter in my underwater housing.

Can the powerdown be adjusted on the C-2000Z with CAME or similar utility?

-- nick doe (nickdoe@usa.net), May 19, 1999

Answers

The C-2000 may be *particularly* good in this respect: I don't know about adjusting its powerdown settings, but if you run the camera in the LCD-off mode, it draws almost NO power from the batteries, and appears to stay "sleeping" indefinitely. (I don't know just how long it will stay active, but after 75 minutes, the eval unit here woke back up successfully.) The LCD will want to turn on when you first go to either shutter or aperture priority, but if you turn it off after setting the shutter speed or aperture, it only comes back on to show you a quick "review" of the shot you've just taken, then goes back to sleep. Bottom line, it should be *excellent* for your usage. (Very unusual in our experience for a camera to power-down so completely in "sleep" mode!)

-- Dave Etchells (web@imaging-resource.com), June 14, 1999.