Thanks all of you for the suggestions. In the meanwhile, I've continued the disassembly in persuit of some obvious problem, but I didn't get anywhere and considering that a 'new' used body is less expensive than professional servicing, I've given up.
By coincidence, I bumped into a second hand auction (not ebay) for an LX, so I'm first having a go for that one. Maybe I'll come back to one of the offered Super A's over here later on. Groeten, Vic P. J. Alling wrote: > First off, did you take the film out, or press the film clutch button > and attempt to cock the shutter the rest of the way. After that I don't > have any suggestions, except to say that you can probably buy a used > body for considerably less than the cost of opening the one you have for > a diagnosis. > > Vic Mortelmans 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.
