What Adam said. When it happened to me, long years ago, the film rewind release wouldn't work, either; so I contrived a changing bag, removed the film, removed the battery, installed a new one, and after a few burps the thing worked fine again.
About a year later I got my PZ-1, but the Super Program worked fine for my son a few years ago on a trip. Rick --- Adam Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > http://www.photo.net/photos/RickW ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- 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.
