Hi, the batteries are fresh, but nevertheless I loaded a new pair, whithout improvement.
Note that there's still metering information on the display: the camera behaves just as if it is not cocked, apart from the fact that the winding lever cannot be advanded. Anyway, the old, trustworthy Spotmatic F is backing up, so I'm OK. Groeten, Vic Adam Maas 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. >> > > -- 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.
