I've had several MZ/ZX bodies that acted this way. What I found in all but 1 case was that the gear on the mirror assy drive motor was loose from the shaft. The sound is the motor trying to 'cock' the mirror or shutter assy. I've fixed 3 of them by pushing the gear back on and securing it with superglue. The others I've either broken parts getting to the motor or used too much glue. ;-( This seems the most common and frequent failure of these bodies. On the ZX-10 with its small and dim viewfinder I doubt repairing it is worth the effort. Nice price for those lenses, even with a bad body. The FA50/1.7 is a very sweet lens.
Don > -----Original Message----- > From: Perry Pellechia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 6:09 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Help, Dead or sick ZX-10? > > > One good eBay purchase I made several months back was a ZX-10 with a > FA 50/f1.7 and FA 80-200 for $85. Since I really was only interested > in the lenses I was not too upset to discover that the camera seemed > to be faulty. But now that I am doing some New Year's cleaning I > thought I would ask the group about the camera to confirm that it > really is defective. > > I have new batteries in the camera but no film. When batteries are > put into the camera there is a low buzzing sound of a motor that lasts > for about 1.5 secs. On each push of the shutter or change with a > mode button the camera makes the same noise. If you remove the lens > you can see the mirror move slightly with each push of the shutter > button. If you hit the shutter button enough times the shutter might > trip but it does not seem too healthy. Mechanically there does not > seem to be anything out of place or jammed. > > So I guess the real question I have is how should the camera behave in > this test? Can you "dry-fire" it? Does it need film to operate > normally? Anything else I can try to revive or test it? > > Thanks for any advice, > Perry. > > > <----------------------------------------------------> > Perry Pellechia > > Primary email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Alternate email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Home Page: http://homer.chem.sc.edu/perry > <----------------------------------------------------> >
