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Author Message   Erik Rahlén Tinkerer Username: Erirah Post Number: 1 Registered: 08-2006 Rating: N/A Votes: 0 Posted on Friday, August 25, 2006 - 03:28 pm:    Just in case you didn't already know: The shutter release wont operate without the batteries. It is a two-stage switch. First it turns the meter on, then it triggers the shutter. (There isn't a separate power switch.) Bad contact between battery holder and camera house? I'm not 100% sure of how to get inside, never opened mine. From experience with the FS-1, immediate ancestor of the FC-1, I think that you don't need to remove strap lugs or the flash synch and 5-pin remote control connectors. Two screws are probably hiding under the rewind crank. The FS-1 has a motor in the bottom of the mirror box to cock the shutter and the mirror lift mechanism. With a little luck Konica reused the mirror box design and then the mechanism between the film advance lever and the missing motor in the FC-1 might be simple... Good luck! Erik