Before you do anything else, replace the battery. Like many camera's of that era, a low battery can cause lockups.
-Adam On 12/22/07, Vic Mortelmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > My Super A (a.k.a. Super Program, my most advanced camera body at this > moment) has locked up today... I made a shot, and advanced the film, but > the 'cocked' sign in the display does not show up, and the camera can't > be fired. So it seems like either the winding mechanisme locked up half > way, or it did wind properly, but the camera doesn't detect this... > > I manage to take off the base plate and the top plate, but don't see any > obvious problems and I'm not really in to further disassembly, not > knowing what to look for. > > But before I take it to a repair shop (is it still worth a repair? It > cost me 90 euro and I know that even an attempt to repair will cost me > at least around 70 euro), I'd like to check on this forum if there's no > easy way I could solve this. I was thinking of > > 1. an indication of the part that 'detects' the shutter is cocked (which > I think may fail e.g. because of bad electronic contact?) > > 2. an indication if there's a way to force the camera to release > (assuming that it is properly cocked, and which may return it into > normal operation) > > Thanks for any suggestions! > > Groeten, > Vic > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
