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Niki Wong
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 - 11:08 am: | 
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hi guys, i'm a newbie from Hong Kong 
have a few questions to ask about my ricoh 500GX, hope there's someone to help.
1. it seems that the metering is not working for my GX, althoguh it's perfectly ok to use in manual mode but i wonder what the problem is and how can it be fixed myself?
2. no luck, recently, the film counter is not working as well, it does not return to "s" or zero when i load a new roll of film. what went wrong and how can it be fixed? can it be easily fixed by D.I.Y ??
plz help. thx so much
Niki |
WernerJB
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 - 12:23 pm: |
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Hi, Niki W.,
#1: I once had one with a defective meter, as the galvanometer inside had packed up foor good. A repair was not possible and nowadays spare parts mainly come from junk cameras. But there are some more causes for defects than this, namely the wiring (e.g. from the battery case to the test switch, this switch itself) and the LDR (AKA CdS cell or Electric Eye). Unfortunately inspecting these requires taking the camera apart. There is another switch inside the camera operated by the speed dial (no metering when set to "B").
#2: The resetting arm of the film counter is often blocked by some black goo from the disintegrating light baffles around the camera's film door. The reason for a complete failure of the counter may be a misbent or unhooked spring.
Before you start working look around in this forum (try "Keyword Search" first) and take my advice, try to get some more info from the internet.
Pocketable Ricoh compact cameras like the G500 and the 500GX were among my first tinkering objects a good while ago, I then considered them difficult, but now I know that there are far more complicated cameras, this is to say everybody can do if they try, I wish you good luck with your project. |
niki wong
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 - 11:37 pm: |
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thx werner,
i will try to search more information then |
Jon Goodman
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, December 22, 2005 - 09:27 pm: |
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Hi, Niki.
Here is the best site I've seen on re-sealing this camera...
http://www.ukcamera.com/collect/ricoh_reseal.html
Good luck.
Jon |
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