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nick
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, July 28, 2004 - 08:07 pm: | 
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As the owner of a Ricoh XR-2, I purchased the camera about 3 years ago. Recently, my flash has stopped working, wondering about hot-seat problems, what can be done , maintainence, self-repair to fix this problem??????
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Jim Brokaw
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, July 28, 2004 - 11:11 pm: |
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Clean the flash contacts, both on the flash unit and the camera hot shoe, using a pencil eraser. Get them bright and shiny, sometimes they get a film which is hard to see but interferes with electrical contact.
Also, put good batterys in both the flash and camera. Some cameras need batterys to work the flash trigger circuit, others do not... I don't know which the Ricoh XR-2 is. Fresh batterys rarely cause anything to get worse. Watch out though because sometimes batterys just bought from the store are not fresh, get the ones with a date and make sure the date is a long ways out, those are likely the most recently manufactured. Batterys start to lose juice right from the beginning even if not used they lose some power over time.
Those are two things I'd check. |
Ed
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, July 29, 2004 - 01:00 pm: |
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the next step would be to try another flash--to determine if it is the camera or flash that is the problem |
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