On May 22, 2007, at 7:19 AM, William Robb wrote: > My older F2s is still working just fine, but I have owned a couple > of MX > bodies with flakey meters, both dead from unrepairable electronics, > not > mechanical failures.
Cheap components, usually the resistor used for the K-mount aperture follower if I recall what my service tech friend told me. I bet someone could repair it but it isn't cost effective to do so. Nikon FTn Photomic heads for the F and F2 often have problems with a similar component. There's a guy who rebuilds them and recalibrates them for currently available batteries for about $70 a head. What all these problems really indicate is how cheap, low-spec most of the electronic components being used are, even in high-end cameras. Curiously, my 1966 RCA transistor radio that cost me $20 (expensive back then!) is still going strong. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
