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Yellowjeep
Tinkerer
Username: Yellowjeep
Post Number: 11
Registered: 04-2008
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, May 26, 2009 - 02:00 am: | 
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Been a long while since I have posted, forgot what a great resource this forum is.
Like the title states, my XA is acting up.
It has been opened up a couple of times to fix a non working/stuck aperture and in the process the beeper wires came un soldered. Since my skills in that area are lacking I just left it off because the light still works.
Fast forward a number of months.
I haven't been using this camera for a while because I have been really busy with school and what not and it has just been sitting. I pulled it out to run a few rolls through it and it doesn't work. The shutter is cocked but doesn't fire, the meter seems to be working but that is it. No green long exp. Llght and no check or timer light.
I popped some new batteries in but no avail. I then tested the battery contacts with a voltmeter and they are ok. I pulled it completely apart and there are no visible lose connections. On top of that I completely destroyed the red shutter button (but I did read the peanut butter lid/ guitar pick trick).
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M_currie
Tinkerer
Username: M_currie
Post Number: 180
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 - 08:12 am: |
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First off, I'd try another set of batteries, even if the ones you have seem good. It's just too easy for a bum battery to send you off on a fool's errand. Assuming it's really not a battery, I'd try the self timer next. I've had an XA2 and and XA3 both die of an electronic failure that allows them only to work on self-timer. Unfortunately, there is apparently no fix for this other than a new chip, which in the case of XA's means another camera. |
Yellowjeep
Tinkerer
Username: Yellowjeep
Post Number: 12
Registered: 04-2008
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 - 03:39 pm: |
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Thanks, I was thinking about that while I was at work. They are new but I guess I don't really know exactly how new they are. I'll try another set. |
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