On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 12:24:51PM -0700, aimcompute wrote: > BTW, my film transport just locked on my ME Super. I thought the camera > wasn't working at all. So I managed in the dark to wind the film till it > stripped off the sprockets. Thought I had it all, but the film had broken > inside leaving about 5 frames around the take-up reel. > > Does anyone know why this happens? Happened with an MX once as well.
I've got an ME Super with quirky transport. One day (without film) I could continually crank the wind lever, without tripping the shutter - that was freaky. Then I turned the mode dial and I couldn't reproduce the fault again. Another time, I took a photo and the mirror locked up. (This is DIFFERENT from when you trip the shutter in auto mode and it is too dark.) Turning the mode dial didn't have any effect. I put lens cap on and rewound the film. And I did something else and the camera was fine again. Lucky too, since that was the day I left both my MX and other ME Super at home. As it turned out, the mirror was up but the shutter was closed, since there was no fogging of the film when I developed it. No idea why any of this happened. Sincerely, Frank. -- Francis Tang, Postgraduate Research Student. LFCS, Div. of Informatics, Uni. of Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK. Tel: +44 131 6505185. Fax: +44 131 6677209. Office: 1603, JCMB, KB. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/fhlt/ - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
