After reading this thread, I took my LX out of the display case where it lives and fired the shutter a few times to make sure the mirror wasn't sticking after quite a few years of storage with only an occasional shutter activation. It was fine at high speeds. Then I tried some slow speeds. Nothing. A moment of panic, then I remembered that when the battery dies, you lose the slower shutter speeds. I'm going to pick up a battery tomorrow and shoot a roll of Tri-X sometime soon.
Paul On Mar 7, 2013, at 7:23 PM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > Replacing the bumpers is difficult enough that a lot of very good camera > techs won't attempt it. Probably not a good DIY project. But that being said, > the LX is a marvelous camera. I still have mine. Time to take it out for a > spin again. > > Paul > On Mar 7, 2013, at 7:18 PM, Rob Studdert <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 8 March 2013 02:14, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I'm hopeful that I can put in a mirror bumper pad and seals in the >>> film back (myself) and be good to go, but that remains to be seen. I >>> was hoping that those of you with an LX (or experience with them) >>> might tell me what sort of issues you had with them (if any) and your >>> impression of where the LX stands in the Pentax film body family. >> >> Personally I wouldn't try, it may make things worse when you send it >> of a CLA. I've still got two bodies, they are great cameras but yes >> they do have their faults though they are getting a bit old now. Many >> moons ago I wrote a page about LX problems (most of which I >> experienced as I had a heap of these bodies) which in the film days >> used to get a lot of hits, it can be found here: >> >> http://users.tpg.com.au/distudio/pentax_lx_problems/ >> >> Cheers, >> >> -- >> Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) >> Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours >> Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio >> >> -- >> 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. -- 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.
