Ken Lin wrote,
> When my camera/lens freezes up, the mirror goes up but does not come down
> after the shutter is tripped until I switch off the camera and switch it
> back on again, at this time there is usually a very short but noticeable
> delay before the mirror comes down. Note I have never ruined a shot as a
> result of this "lock up", ie. the freeze up occurs AFTER the shutter has
> opened and closed, in fact the photo itself is exposed quite normally, it's
> just the mirror doesn't come down, the LCD on top of the EOS-3 body flashes
> BC, and the camera refuses to do anything else.
>
(snip)
>
> I still suspect weak battery being the cause, but it does not explain why a
> brand new battery with only 1.5 rolls did the same thing, I purposely
> continued using this battery for another 12 rolls of film successfully under
> the same usage condition before the freeze up occurred again, and I have
> since put 3 more rolls of film through the same battery without incident,
> the battery check has shown 3 full bars every time I've checked battery
> level.......
Ken,
I once had this sort of problem when fooling around with a Nikon FE2. That
camera is powered by button cells, and it turned out I'd put the battery in
upside down, so shorting the circuits. On correcting the battery the mirror
did come down with some assistance and was fine thereafter.
It certainly sounds like your 3 has some kind of electrical problem ( with
this lens at least), though exactly what beats me! Could there be some kind
of shorting between circuits going on?
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