Hi, The Super A is sold for parts and I'm going to get the LX!! Can't wait for it to arrive... The current owner tells me that he used it until two years ago and that it was not serviced recently. Maybe I should be looking for getting is serviced?
Groeten, Vic Vic Mortelmans wrote: > 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.
