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Lachlan
Tinkerer
Username: Lachlan
Post Number: 5
Registered: 12-2009
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 01, 2010 - 12:07 am: | 
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Hey guys,
I have just receieved a used FM2n from a certain auction site, and after 20mins of joyful fully functioning playing it has jammed. I had tried to fire the shutter in B mode and quite simply the shutter did not close again, and the mirror did not return. Then I discovered that by moving the shutter speed upwards to faster then 1/60th it would reset the mirror and fire, but slower than that it would jam. Then, firing it on 1/8th, it has jammed fully, and the shutter speed dial is now also jammed, unable to move fully to either 1/15 or 1/4 and I'm too scared to force it much at all.
By flicking down the aperture lever I can get the mirror to manually return, and by opening up the bottom plate and fiddling I can get the film advance to advance, but nothing resets the shutter from it's fully open position.
I can easily get a return, as it was sold as fully working, and they did not describe a bang it had recieved that has warped the casing just above the viewfinder (a possible cause for my woes?), but obviously I'd just prefer a working camera... |
Tom_cheshire
Tinkerer
Username: Tom_cheshire
Post Number: 284
Registered: 04-2009
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - 11:18 am: |
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Your best bet is to return it. |
Rick_oleson
Tinkerer
Username: Rick_oleson
Post Number: 1072
Registered: 07-2006
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - 04:29 pm: |
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There are other FM2n's out there. Unless you're yearning for a repair project at your own expense, return it and try for a working one. |
Lachlan
Tinkerer
Username: Lachlan
Post Number: 6
Registered: 12-2009
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, March 03, 2010 - 11:11 pm: |
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yep, that's the road I'm going down.. well actually, since the seller is currently nonresponsive I'm going down the paypal dispute route haha |
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