You're still not using the correct procedure. This is it:
1. Cock shutter;
2. Cock self timer;
3. Nudge self timer back towards the lens;
4. The shutter will fire when the timer runs down.
You're going wrong at step 3 by using the shutter release button. The
self timer will trip the shutter but the shutter release will not trip
the self timer, although it does so on many other cameras and on later
Pentaxes with digital self timers. What you did was to over-ride the
self timer when you tripped the shutter directly, and then when you did
operate the self timer the shutter wasn't cocked and was unable to fire.
Better luck this time.
Regards,
Anthony Farr
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From: "Andrew Blake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> ->-----Original Message-----
> -> Paul Jones
> ->Sent: Thursday, 16 August 2001 1:07 PM
> ->To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ->Subject: Re: Bought it! Was: buying a Pentax ME super, opinions?
>
> (snip)
>
> Thanks for the manual, but I still can't get it to work. When I cock
it,
> and then trip the shutter, the shutter fires as normal and the timer
remains
> cocked, then when I give it a nudge, it buzzes along, but has no
effect on
> the shutter, I can keep shooting while it's counting down. No biggie,
I
> guess I can live without it.
>
> (snip)
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