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On the XG-1, check the shutters to see if they closed all the way. Sometimes when a battery gets weak the shutters may not complete the travel when released causing the winder to lock. If you see the vertical metal bars that separate the shutters, gently force them the rest of the way over so you can not see them any more. This usually resets everything and gets the camera working again. The XG-1 also has problems with the electrical contacts under the shutter speed dial and aperture ring. Try rotating the shutter speed dial clockwise around several times and flipping the aperture several times to clean the contacts. The XG-M usually suffers from bad capacitors that lock up the shutters. The XG-m actually has 3 different caps that go bad. The main one that controls the shutters in just under the bottom plate. Both cameras have a film advance lock under the bottom plate. It's a small lever against the back of the body that you can f |