No experience of ZX-5n's but some with SF1n's doing very similar stuff. Once I saw similar problems caused by a bad battery, but most of the time this is caused by the camera being jammed. The shutter and film advance mechanisms in the SF's are closely related and if any of it gets jammed the electronics can get very, very confused. I have seen just the problems you describe caused by an errant screw, which I simply pulled out after fixing the jam and left it out (still no idea where it was from), and the camera has worked fine ever since!
Bottom line though is don't mess with it, send it for repair, unless you don't value it. Don't take it apart unless you know what you are doing with regards to discharging the flash capacitors, they can literally blow pieces out of screwdrivers even when you think they are discharged. I doubt this helps much after sitting here spouting off, but maybe it's of interest so I'll send it :0) Regards, /\/\ick... -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Nitin Garg Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 3:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: zx-5n problem :) If only it were that simple... I guess i will take the hit. Sending the camera body off to keh.com (unless someone here have a better alternative repair place ? :)). To pay for the cost, i want to get rid of my SMC 28-200 mm f/3.8-5.6 FA AL (IF) lens. Anyone here interested ? On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 06:10:15AM -0500, CBWaters wrote: > Have you tied changing the battery? It just seems like a lot of funky > behavier for one problem... > > Cory Waters > knows nothing about fixing cameras. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nitin Garg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 5:03 AM > Subject: zx-5n problem > > > > Hi, > > > > I have a zx-5n which has developed a problem. It doesnt work :) > > > > Any action on it produces a whizzing sound of its motors inside and i > > believe it is from the film winder because i had loaded new film into > > the cam and taken 2 shots when this happened and when i opened the back > > the film was almost fully on the take-up spool side. > > > > This is all it does. Pressing shutter-release, changing modes, opening > > back everything results in this whizzing sound. The lens, instead of > > being wide open closes down to its smallest aperture. the viewfinder > > display doesnt show anything, the pop up flash wont fire, nothing! > > > > So, anyone experienced this problem before ? It was working fine and > > died suddenly. Anyone know of a good place to get it repaired ? An > > estimate on repair cost would help (i am in nj). > > > > thanks, > > nitin > > - > > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
