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Forum: Repairs and Warranty Service 09-18-2022, 01:17 PM  
Pentax P30T shutter stuck
Posted By Ymita
Replies: 0
Views: 443
Hello. I have a Pentax P30T for a couple of years and it worked fine all the time. Today I tried to load a roll lf film and a strange thing occured. I left the film inside as usual right by the red mark at the taking spool and closed the door. Then I tried to cock the shutter and felt the resistance combined with some strange noise like the spool was spinning inside but the film was slipping off it and made the noise. However the first time I was able to make a blank shot and thought that film wasn't holding to the spool correctrly/ I opened the back and took the film out, and next I tried to cock the shutter again. This time it got stuck in the middle and it's not moving forward, meaning that I cannot make a shot. The spot metering works fine and I tried it with some fresh batteries but nothing changes, it feels like it's broken inside or what. I can spin the taking spool manually and there is no strange sound or resistance but I cannot cock the shutter cause it's stuck. Earlier today I made some blank shots without film inserted and it worked fine as intended. Not shure what did just happened to it.
What can it be and is it completely dead or not? There are no camera repair shops in my area or at least in 1000km around me so my options are weak - it may be a minor problem easy to fix or it's dead and no one will be able to repair it. Any suggestions for me what to do or what can it be?
Thanks for at least reading it.

UPD: I left it to rest for a few days. Then I just dropped the camera on my couch, it somehow fixed the problem and everything works fine again.
Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion 06-15-2018, 04:46 AM  
~ 28-105mm lenses for manual film cam
Posted By Ymita
Replies: 13
Views: 1,322
Well thank you, think F 35-105mm will be my choice. Looks very interesting.
Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion 06-15-2018, 12:55 AM  
~ 28-105mm lenses for manual film cam
Posted By Ymita
Replies: 13
Views: 1,322
And it's still possible to use it in manual mode? Sounds like a dumb question.
Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion 06-15-2018, 12:21 AM  
~ 28-105mm lenses for manual film cam
Posted By Ymita
Replies: 13
Views: 1,322
Willing to buy ~28-~105 zoom lens for my film Pentax P30t for about 100$ (±20$). Hoping to get AF camera someday, that's why I'm looking at AF lenses too. I can get Sigma 28-105mm F2.8-4 for 80$, but according to its reviews image quality of this lens isn't really impressive. Another option is
SMC Pentax-A 35-105mm F3.5 - really good lens as I see, yet it's kinda heavy. I'd like it to be my travel lens, so it's slightly a problem. Apart of these two, there are numerous zoom lenses without detailed description, so what do you think should I get? Maybe there are some "hidden gems" like lenses with adequate quality for reasonably sharp film pics? I need your help, guys.
Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras 03-17-2017, 10:39 AM  
Wind lever and others aren't working on Pentax P30T
Posted By Ymita
Replies: 4
Views: 4,863
Huge thanks to you guys, it seems that I was pretty rude with wind lever.



That's exactly what has happened to me. Just did it and now it works, so, ehm, this problem is lame enough.



Thak you for this remark, now it's pretty clear how to operate with lever.
Also I've noticed it's not that hard to make two shots with overlapping on this camera, that's vexingly.
So this thread can be closed I think.
Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras 03-17-2017, 09:57 AM  
:cool: Lets see those ''film'' shots
Posted By Ymita
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras 03-17-2017, 09:19 AM  
Wind lever and others aren't working on Pentax P30T
Posted By Ymita
Replies: 4
Views: 4,863
Hello and I'm sorry to start this troubleshooting post.
Recently I've finished first film with P30T. So after the last shot was done I've cocked the wind lever almost to the end but since it was the end of the film nothing had happened, and I wasn't able to release shutter because pressing on the shutter release button does nothing. Then I pressed the release button at the bottom of the camera, rewinded it and pulled film out, but this release button has stucked and wind lever started to work oddlly - it moves to the end but does not advance anything, it just moves freely without any resistance. I've fixed (?) the release button by manually advancing film take up spool, but after that film sprocket spool goes locked and that's all. I've tried new batteries but it was useless, and now I have no idea what to do. Maybe you have any thoughts how to fix it?
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