Hi Wendy! This is a 6x7 unit, so: is it a MLU unit or not?. One of my 6x7 MLU bodies did this while in India in 99. In addition, I think you may not have much on the rolls you continued with: when you said "Taking the battery out, the mirror dropped back down and the lens aperture opened' you have yourself a very overexposed frame! Hope you didn't loose anything!
WHAT HAPPENED:The only difference is in how I had to recover: Once the shutter was fired (which locked the mirror), the only way out was to press the recessed Mirror release (about 1" below the shutter on the front side of the camera) and fire the shutter again. WHAT WAS WRONG: I took the body into repair, and was told that the mirror actuating SOLENOID - intenally a big green thing in the panel under the mirror release button - was fubar. I believe this gets stuck in "push the mirror up mode" - when you take the battery out (or push the little button) you take the charge away from it, and it releases the mirror. WHAT I DID : As it cost more to repair (In NYC, $250) than buy on ebay, I took the easy route! Hope this helps ----- Original Message ----- From: "wendy beard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 8:40 AM Subject: My holiday and 6x7 problem > Hi Guys, > > Just back from my vacation in the Canadian Rockies. Amazing scenery! Think > I actually went into scenery fatigue at one point. > Of course I had to travel lightly, so just took along the MX with 20mm lens > and the MZ-S with 24-90 zoom. > Then I just had to slip in the 43 and 77 ltd just in case. And of course > the 6x7 with 105 and 55mm lenses. I said to myself, if it can't all fit in > a lowepro mini terkker then it can't go. Luckily for me there are carrying > straps on the outside for a tripod. > The MZ-S performed superbly. Apart from a couple of annoying times when the > little switch turned onto self-timer accidentally when being crammed into > the bag and pulled out of its ERC (fire, damn you!). MX and M20mm/f4 - a > perfect combination! Had one heart stopping moment where I thought the > meter had packed up. New batteries hadn't helped but a clean and a fiddle > round in the battery compartment got it working again. On the next to the > last day, the 6x7 started playing up and I don't know why. > Took a shot and the mirror stayed up and the lens remained stopped down. > Thought it was maybe the battery. Put in a new one but that didn't help. > Taking the battery out, the mirror dropped back down and the lens aperture > opened. From then on it was - > compose, shoot, clunk, remove battery, clunk, put battery back, start again. > I would have put money on it being the battery but now it's got a brand new > 4LR44 in it, and the battery check button is lighting. Any ideas? > (Lens I was using was the 55mm but it behaves the same with the 105) > > Wendy > > --- > Wendy Beard > Ottawa, Canada > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > home page http://www.beard-redfern.com > - > 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 .
