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Want to see this in person
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
07-06-2009, 12:38 PM
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Thanks for your opinion...and after several tries to fix the camera is time to face the facts...i wasn't a camera repair guy in another life :(
The A lens is ok and i will not try to remove anything from it. A friend of my cousin gave me the phone of a guy who claims that can fix the camera, but the price is way over of what i paid for the camera, so...new plan.
I'll kepp using the camera with the tokina lens (after all the photos aren't that bad, i wish i could say the same of the photograper :o) and i'll try to find another camera and use the knowledge from this experience to make a better buy and in the future give a good use to that A lens.
Thanks everybody for your help.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
06-29-2009, 12:55 PM
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Thanks Nesster for the links. I've been reading the manual this days but no luck, i thought it will be easier but i couldn't be more wrong.
The only unussual thing i saw on the mechanism was that when i put the 50 mm on the camera the Mirror Tensioning Lever moves up about 3 centimeters and comes back to it's position when i take it off.
The thing is that with the lens on i pushed the mirror lever back to it's place with my finger then i tried to load the film an the mirror worked ok, i tried this several times and worked fine none of those times the mirror got stuck.
I don't know if that's really the problem, but if i can find a way to keep the lever on it's place with that lens maybe my problems will be over. What do you think...am i getting nuts. :eek:
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
06-25-2009, 09:48 PM
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Hi, I have a similar problem like yosemitesamiam, can you please give more details of that metal tab you mention, maybe that can help me solve my problem too.
Thanks in advance.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
06-24-2009, 01:00 PM
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Me again, searching in the internet i found a coment about the pentax k1000
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I notice people have said the k1000 has no lock-up mirror. I
don't no if this is true of all k1000 cameras, but my mirror locks up.
However, this feature is not mentioned in any of my camera's orginal
literature, nor does it seem to appear in any of the astro-photo books or
even the regular photography books for that matter. In my case, I need to
cock the shutter, and then "flick" the button in a 45 degree downward
motion with my index finger. If you try this with the lense off, you will
notice the mirror flips up and stays up, but the shutter remains
closed
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That's exactly what i was talking about my last post, so that's normal, te weird part is how this same thing happens with the lens on.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
06-24-2009, 11:19 AM
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Thanks for the link clm i was looking for that information and had no luck. About the tokina lens when i move the aperture ring the viewfinder does get darker.
According with the link you gave me, the diaphragm release is the one that gets stuck. I tried to reproduce this without the lens. First i push the diaphragm release on the camera's body, later i wind the film, press the shutter and most of the times i tried this the diaphragm release and the mirror stay up just like when i'm using then 50 mm lens. And I have to press the shutter again to release it.
So the problem is with the camera, i got it on a flea market like a month ago. I was excited when i got it but looks like i made a bad choice.
Is there a way to fix this by myself? Here where i live i don't know of any camera repair services. And excuse me for keep bringing this up, but then if i remove the diaphragm actuator from the lens, the lens will be useless?
Thanks for your replies.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
06-23-2009, 04:07 PM
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So to make it a M lense i have to remove or cut the "aperture coupler B", am i right?
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
06-23-2009, 01:06 PM
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I tried with the A setting on and off and i always get the same results. How can i know the coupling is bent, as i see it is ok, i can be wrong that's for sure.
So if the problem is the lens there's nothing i can do? How important is the "aperture coupler B".
Thanks for all of your answers.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
06-23-2009, 06:39 AM
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At the moment i don't have another lens to make any other tests, but in fact the tokina is an A lens and works well but it doesn't have the lever i mention earlier.
If is a mirror problem, can be fixed?
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
06-22-2009, 09:16 PM
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Here are the actual pictures of what i'm talking about, the first one is the tokina lens
and here's the picture of the pentax lens
I don't know if that lever is the one causing the problem. The part i was talking about near the mirror is this one on the picture
this part is the one that gets stuck with the mirror.
I hope that makes more clear my situation, thanks in advance.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
06-22-2009, 05:05 PM
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Thanks for replying.
Yes i can reproduce this problem every time i use the camera with the 50 mm lens. The only way it works is using a lower speed like 8 or a 4. And with the tokina lens works perfectly any time.
My cousin notice something that is that the tokina lens doesn't have the dynamic aperture coupler
And the pentax lens does have it
He told me that maybe taking out than coupler it might work, but i don't know if that's true or even worse, i don't know if that might damage the lens.
About the mirror getting stuck i don't think is the foam, because if i use the camera with the tokina lens or without lens it doesn't get stuck only with the pentax lens. I think the coupler besides the mirror is the one that gets stuck.
What can it be?
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
06-22-2009, 12:45 PM
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Hi
Last week i bought a pentax k1000 camera it came with a macro lens, a tokina sd 28-70 mm, it works perfectly with that lens. But yesterday my cousin gave a pentax-A 50 mm lens, i tried to use it with my camera, it fits but after i wind the film to take a shot when i look throu the viewfinder everything looks black, i removed the lens and the mirror stayed up and it came down after i press the shutter. That doesn't happens with the tokina, at first i was thinking it was a lens problem, but my cousin says the problem is at the camera.
I hope I explanined that right, some knows what could be the problem?. Thanks.
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