I'm unclear on exactly what happened. Are the curtains bent or otherwise
damaged? Or do they look just fine? If it's #2 I would slap a roll of
film in the camera, and take a good look at the results. Chances are the
shutter is fine. If damage is present, I would take it to a repair shop,
or send it to Pentax.
Todd
At 10:06 AM 6/4/01 -0700, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Some of you may have read in another thread of my
>incompetent attempt to shoot a local band (the drummer
>of which is my close friend) in a bar recently. I've
>decided to post another on-topic message soliciting
>advice on how to progress with a problem caused by my
>own idiocy during this ill-fated shoot.
>
>At some point in the evening, when re-loading my
>PZ-1p, I managed to press my thumb directly into the
>shutter curtains. It was hard enough so that I
>actually felt some deflection of the curtains under my
>touch. I cannot begin to tell you the feeling in my
>stomach when I realized what I had done. I am so
>angry with myself, I cannot even describe it. I am
>always so careful not to let even the film leader
>graze these curtains because I understand that they
>are manufactured to such a high precision that they
>may be misaligned and damaged very easily.
>
>My question is what to do next. How much damage am I
>like to have caused? Can this be assessed easily?
>What expense is involved in fixing or replacing this
>part of the camera? Should I send it to Pentax or
>what?
>
>The sad thing is that this was a brand new camera
>(one-month old!) - and now I feel like I will never
>trust it to be working properly unless I have so much
>of the "guts" replaced.
>
>Thanks everyone,
>
>Chaso (rethinking whether he deserves to own a Pentax)
>
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