Isn't there a small "keep alive" battery within the Z-1? If so, it may be time to replace it. It is needed to keep the camera settings and memory functions active when the big battery is dead. If the keep alive battery is dead, and the big battery fails, the camera has no way of knowing where the film is and the only thing that you can do, in that case, is what you did.
Len --- -----Original Message----- From: Richard Seaman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 9:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Z-1 dead battery film rewind problem folks, I had a nasty problem with my Z-1 a few weeks ago. It started to rewind and then, almost immediately, stopped and the low battery indication came on. I replaced the battery, but the camera refused to do anything, and I ended up having to open the back in the dark and manually rewind the film. Everything worked fine from then on. Any thoughts on why this happened or what I could have done about it, beside what I did do? thanks, Richard. - 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 .
