Another engineer examined the camera. The pins of the accessory grip are right in line with the takeup spool; the engineer thinks I must have damaged the spool's core when trying to force the grip's pins into the camera's grip holes.
How woud I know, from the following instructions at http://www.butkus.org/chinon/xr-psingle/ricoh.htm, that installing the grip required depressing the release button? 1. Push the hand grip release button on the bottom of your camera to remove the standard grip. (Fig. 71 ) 2. Press two release grip pegs into camera body holes to snap the release grip into place. (Fig. 72) So I've ruined a new camera before taking a single shot. I can't imagine it's worth trying to get it repaired when I can pick up another on EBay for $100. I found an online review of the camera's successor, the XR-M, in which the owner said he had to get the film transport fixed twice before the display finally went dead. I wonder whether film transports were an Achilles heel of RIcoh SLRs. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.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 .
