> If I understand you right, you're unable to activate the meter > without tripping the shutter, right? I had one of mine start > doing this a little over a year ago, and against all good > judgment, I dropped a little WD40 from a toothpick down the cable > release socket and then dry fired the camera a few times. Works > just like it should with no problems since.
I had this happen once quite a few years ago (although I think it actually was an ME Super). My remedy (successful!) was to squirt just a bit of "TV contact cleaner" (from Radio Shack) and then to fire the camera a bunch of times. (My thought was that it was an oxidized electrical contact, which the cleaner might "un-oxidize" (reduce, I guess, in chemical terms). Well, it worked... Fred - 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 .
