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     Msiegel Tinkerer Username: Msiegel Post Number: 280 Registered: 03-2008 Rating: N/A |
The X-300/370 is said to have one capacitor only. Problem with shows usually the following way: LEDs in the finder turn on but as soon as you try to trip the shutter they turn off and will only turn on again when you turn the camera off and on. Here is an article with photos and possible sources. http://www.twid.de/x700/#x300 My Seagull made X-300 clone had the problem described above and I had the capacitor replaced with a 220µF 10V capacitor as described in the article I linked to (the one from Conrad). The 220mF value seems to be more important than the voltage. My camera works fine for several years now. If the problem manifests differently you might try to reset it before you address the capacitor. Have a look here: https://kyp.hauslendale.com/classics/resetcamera.html My original Minolta X-300 did not shoot when I got it. Reason was that the lever the red arrow points to (the lower one) did not return fully to it's postion. It must be absolute parallel with the camera body as shown in the pic. I loosened the screw left to the arrow a tiny bit and the camera is working since then. Hope it helps - those are fine users. |