That sounds like what happened to both my MZ-Ms way back; both had to do with some motor which was replaced by Pentax (one was under warranty while the other was not). I can no longer exactly remember why they failed (it happened way back in 2001 or so...although one may have been a quality control issue) but I know it did not have anything to do with batteries.
Speaking of batteries, the manual does say that nicads are no-no for the battery pack FG; it does not say why but I do remember something from the Canon motor drive MA (for the A-1/AE-1 Program) manual which also does not allow nicads that it has something to do with a difference in...something (watts? amps? --I forget; I don't have that manual anymore)...which would effectively burn out motors (the motor drive MA does have a separate nicad battery pack which downgrades its performance). On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 7:06 PM, James<s...@eftel.net.au> wrote: > I have Battery grip FG and have tried a fully charged set of nicads and > energiser lithums. > Both power a MZ60 that belongs to my wife but shutter buzzes still with both > MZ7's. > Set camera to red eye reduction, the preflash fires for red eye but neither > main flash or shutter fires. > I don't want to use the MZ60 due to it's inabilities of use with A series > lenses. > > James > > > On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:03:28 +0300, Boris Liberman wrote: > >>Have you tried a fresh set of batteries? > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Bong Manayon http://www.bong.uni.cc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
