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     Henry Rating: N/A |
The second curtain is being held open electronically...which explains the dead batteries! There could be several causes. Worse case is that the timing chip is toasted. And I know of no source of replacement chips except donor cameras. Of course, it might simply be a bad capacitor or something equally simple. The ME Super isn't that complicated a camera if one has a bit of experience. However, it sounds like you might have serious electronic problems. So, unless you possess electronic experience, I suggest you donate the camera to a fellow tinkerer on this site who has a mechanically busted Super. He might even trade you another old camera for it! (I personally don't need it. I have a handful of working M-series Pentax's and a boot box full of disassembled donors.) But whatever you do...DON'T trash it!!! Henry |