Just received my PZ1P back from Pentax repair in Colorado, in a record 10 days. I've been experiencing an intermittent problem with film rewind - see Feb 08 post below. This is the forth time I've had them look into this. Had previously been told by them they couldn't find anything wrong. This time they claim to have fixed the concern by replacing the bottom external plate, no charge. After some phone conversations with Pentax customer service, I was told that if the bottom plate can flex/move it could preload the main frame of the camera body and this could be enough to cause a binding in the actual rewind mechanism. I reloaded the same roll of film back into the body and will repost the camera status after some film has been put through it. Stay tuned.
Ken Waller ----- Original Message ----- From: Richard Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 9:42 PM Subject: OT: Ken Waller, so long and thanks for all the fish > Ken, > > Thanks for the info. I intended to email you off-list, but I couldn't > track down your email address, so here is my "thank you". > > I'd be very interested in hearing the results of your investigation on > this matter. > > Richard. > > home page: www.richard-seaman.com > > --- original message --- > > Rich, > I've got a similar concern with a PZ1P. It is intermittent and has been back > to Pentax Colorado three times. They have advised that they can find nothing > wrong. I've sent them the body after I've removed the film. The condition > reappeared last week on a shoot - at about the 13th frame the film wouldn't > advance and I couldn't get the film to rewind - the symbol for a rewound > roll was blinking. The battery was fine, no blinking symbol to replace. This > time I'm sending the body to them with the film in place in the body, hoping > it will help them to diagnosis the concern. I'm in the Auto Industry and > intermittent concerns are the hardest to diagnosis. > > Ken Waller > > >folks, > > > > I had a nasty problem with my Z-1 a few weeks ago. It started to > rewind > >and then, almost immediately, stopped and the low battery indication came > >on. I replaced the battery, but the camera refused to do anything, and I > >ended up having to open the back in the dark and manually rewind the film. > >Everything worked fine from then on. > > > > Any thoughts on why this happened or what I could have done about it, > >beside what I did do? > > > >thanks, > > > >Richard. > > > >home page: www.richard-seaman.com > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Join the world's largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > http://www.hotmail.com > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
