If it does turn out that it needs repair, the repair is not that difficult.
A couple of years ago I changed a roll of film in my (almost new) PZ-1p
while crossing a lagoon as a passenger in a dugout canoe. The canoe rolled a
bit in the wake of a powerboat, I did something to the shutter (like maybe I
put my thumb through it). Whatever, I closed it up, tried to shoot, the
shutter jammed, and I had a broken camera. Cost about $125 to fix, took
Pentax Colorado about 4 weeks.
Stan
> From: Chaso DeChaso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 10:06:14 -0700 (PDT)
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> Subject: HELP! - Have I ruined my PZ-1p's shutter curtains by touching them?
>
> 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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