Golly, I must be getting old, I had to run upstairs and get one of my
cameras to answer your questions.
Selftimer: Should move away from the mirror box to set. You push the
little chrome button that is hidden until you move the lever to start
the timer. It does not tick but gives off a steady buz until the shutter
trips. Nope it should not be flopping around.
Flash: Nothing to over look. You just put it in the shoe and when the
shutter trips the flash should fire (provided of course that the flash
is turned on and nothing is wrong with it). The hot shoe has tiny wires
connecting it to the sync terminals sometimes they have a bad connection
or get broken. It is an easy fix. On the other hand sometimes the sync
switch goes bad. The way to check for that is to see if a flash will
fire if connected to the pc flash terminals on the body. If they work it
is the connection to the hot shoe that is bad, if neither work it is
most likely the switch.
With either of those problems you have the choice of trying to have them
fixed, or just using high speed film and enjoying the camera. An MX with
a fast lens and fast film is a joy to use so you are not out much if
those are the only problems with the cameras
graywolf
http://www.graywolfphoto.com
http://webpages.charter.net/graywolf
"Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof"
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cbwaters wrote:
So after fitting new batteries in the MX I've found a couple things
I'd like to ask other owners about. So anon to the internet!
The self timer lever is just limp like it's not connected inside. It
works the DOF-P but no tick tick tick... Common failure?
My flash doesn't. I have an AF220 mounted and no amount of fiddling
gets it to fire. FWIW, the shoe looks like it's never been used. The
camera's so simple I can't imagine I've overlooked something. But
then, I can be pretty obtuse. Or so says my wife.
Thanks,
CW
