RE: Pentax ME SE
G'day Don (and Bob) Thanks for the advice. I had previously checked the stop down coupler and it moved very freely (much more so that with my ME Super!). However, after receiving your posts I had a closer look and also compared the location of the coupler with its position on other bodies. This showed that the coupler was definitely closer to the edge of the mount on the SE than on the other bodies, although it didn't look to be bent in any way. Short story - after gently prising the coupler away from the mount edge and trying with a lens mounted again, all worked OK!! Despite the fact that the coupler moved freely, it must have been forced against the edge of the mount when the lens was mounted, causing it to drag. So thanks again - problem (hopefully) solved! Cheers Brian + Brian Walters Western Sydney, Australia Quoting Don Sanderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Howdy Brian, if you take the lens off and face the front of the camera: At about the 1 o'clock position, inside the lens mount ring, is a lever that comes flush with the surface of the lens mount ring. Rotate this lever clockwise (push down) with a fingernail until it is fully down/clockwise. Release the lever, it should quickly and freely return to the CCW position. This is the linkage that tells the camera where the lens is set. (F-Stop) Three things can happen, most common is the lubrication on the lever getting gummy and slowing it's return. It is also possible the lever is bent and rubbing on the lens mount ring or the back of the lens, look for bright marks, dead givaway. Third is that the resistor that this lever moves is dirty, this is unlikely give your description of the symptoms. Hope This Helps Don -Original Message- From: Brian Walters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2005 6:01 PM To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: RE: Pentax ME SE Hi Don Quoting Don Sanderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've seen no differences other than the color and diag. prism in the ones I've owned. What is your meter 'anomaly'? I recently picked up a nice SE (Special Edition?) version of the ME on Ebeagh. It's in great condition apart from an exposure meter anomaly which I can live with for now. Basically the meter reads OK when the lens is first attached but subsequently underexposes. For example, if I fit the lens with its aperture set at f22 it reads OK and continues to read OK as I move the aperture ring up to f1.7 with shutter speeds becoming faster as the lens opening is increased. If I then move the ring back towards f22, shutter speeds remain far too fast. The only way to get reasonable readings again is to take the lens off and start again with a small aperture. Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney, Australia
RE: Pentax ME SE
As Cotty would say: Good On You!. Glad you got it working, they're sweet cameras. Don -Original Message- From: Brian Walters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 4:44 PM To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: RE: Pentax ME SE G'day Don (and Bob) Thanks for the advice. I had previously checked the stop down coupler and it moved very freely (much more so that with my ME Super!). However, after receiving your posts I had a closer look and also compared the location of the coupler with its position on other bodies. This showed that the coupler was definitely closer to the edge of the mount on the SE than on the other bodies, although it didn't look to be bent in any way. Short story - after gently prising the coupler away from the mount edge and trying with a lens mounted again, all worked OK!! Despite the fact that the coupler moved freely, it must have been forced against the edge of the mount when the lens was mounted, causing it to drag. So thanks again - problem (hopefully) solved! Cheers Brian + Brian Walters Western Sydney, Australia Quoting Don Sanderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Howdy Brian, if you take the lens off and face the front of the camera: At about the 1 o'clock position, inside the lens mount ring, is a lever that comes flush with the surface of the lens mount ring. Rotate this lever clockwise (push down) with a fingernail until it is fully down/clockwise. Release the lever, it should quickly and freely return to the CCW position. This is the linkage that tells the camera where the lens is set. (F-Stop) Three things can happen, most common is the lubrication on the lever getting gummy and slowing it's return. It is also possible the lever is bent and rubbing on the lens mount ring or the back of the lens, look for bright marks, dead givaway. Third is that the resistor that this lever moves is dirty, this is unlikely give your description of the symptoms. Hope This Helps Don -Original Message- From: Brian Walters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2005 6:01 PM To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: RE: Pentax ME SE Hi Don Quoting Don Sanderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've seen no differences other than the color and diag. prism in the ones I've owned. What is your meter 'anomaly'? I recently picked up a nice SE (Special Edition?) version of the ME on Ebeagh. It's in great condition apart from an exposure meter anomaly which I can live with for now. Basically the meter reads OK when the lens is first attached but subsequently underexposes. For example, if I fit the lens with its aperture set at f22 it reads OK and continues to read OK as I move the aperture ring up to f1.7 with shutter speeds becoming faster as the lens opening is increased. If I then move the ring back towards f22, shutter speeds remain far too fast. The only way to get reasonable readings again is to take the lens off and start again with a small aperture. Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney, Australia
Re: Pentax ME SE
Brian Walters wrote: G'day all I recently picked up a nice SE (Special Edition?) version of the ME on Ebeagh. It's in great condition apart from an exposure meter anomaly which I can live with for now. As far as I was aware, the only differences between this version and the standard ME were the brown leatherette trim , the SE engraved on the top plate and a diagonal (rather than horizontal) split rangefinder. However, I've come across an advertisement in an old magazine which claims that the SE also has manual overide of exposure meter. If it does, I can't find it! - unless they're referring to the exposure compensation facility, which is hardly unique to the SE. Does anyone have one of these and can confirm or debunk this claim? Cheers Brian Brian Walters Western Sydney, Australia Quote from http://www.bdimitrov.de/kmp/bodies/M/ME_Super.html: The SE in the ME Super SE body stands for special eddition. However, the only known difference is that the focusing screen of the SE body is diagonally split, and that of the non-SE body horizontally-split. /Henri
RE: Pentax ME SE
I've seen no differences other than the color and diag. prism in the ones I've owned. What is your meter 'anomaly'? Don -Original Message- From: Brian Walters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2005 4:54 PM To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: Pentax ME SE G'day all I recently picked up a nice SE (Special Edition?) version of the ME on Ebeagh. It's in great condition apart from an exposure meter anomaly which I can live with for now. As far as I was aware, the only differences between this version and the standard ME were the brown leatherette trim , the SE engraved on the top plate and a diagonal (rather than horizontal) split rangefinder. However, I've come across an advertisement in an old magazine which claims that the SE also has manual overide of exposure meter. If it does, I can't find it! - unless they're referring to the exposure compensation facility, which is hardly unique to the SE. Does anyone have one of these and can confirm or debunk this claim? Cheers Brian Brian Walters Western Sydney, Australia
RE: Pentax ME SE
Hi Don Quoting Don Sanderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've seen no differences other than the color and diag. prism in the ones I've owned. What is your meter 'anomaly'? I recently picked up a nice SE (Special Edition?) version of the ME on Ebeagh. It's in great condition apart from an exposure meter anomaly which I can live with for now. Basically the meter reads OK when the lens is first attached but subsequently underexposes. For example, if I fit the lens with its aperture set at f22 it reads OK and continues to read OK as I move the aperture ring up to f1.7 with shutter speeds becoming faster as the lens opening is increased. If I then move the ring back towards f22, shutter speeds remain far too fast. The only way to get reasonable readings again is to take the lens off and start again with a small aperture. Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney, Australia
Re: Pentax ME SE
Hi Henri Quoting Henri Toivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quote from http://www.bdimitrov.de/kmp/bodies/M/ME_Super.html: The SE in the ME Super SE body stands for special eddition. However, the only known difference is that the focusing screen of the SE body is diagonally split, and that of the non-SE body horizontally-split. Thanks for that - that's pretty much what I thought, although I've got the SE version of the ME not the ME Super. Cheers Brian +++ Brian Walters Western Sydney, Australia
Re: Pentax ME SE
Brian, How is the coupling between the lens and camera body? Look for a little metal bar just inside of the lens mount. It should move circularly around the inside of the lens mount. Sounds like it is slipping off of the lens aperture lever. Regards, Bob S. On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 18:01:00 -0600, Brian Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Don Quoting Don Sanderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've seen no differences other than the color and diag. prism in the ones I've owned. What is your meter 'anomaly'? I recently picked up a nice SE (Special Edition?) version of the ME on Ebeagh. It's in great condition apart from an exposure meter anomaly which I can live with for now. Basically the meter reads OK when the lens is first attached but subsequently underexposes. For example, if I fit the lens with its aperture set at f22 it reads OK and continues to read OK as I move the aperture ring up to f1.7 with shutter speeds becoming faster as the lens opening is increased. If I then move the ring back towards f22, shutter speeds remain far too fast. The only way to get reasonable readings again is to take the lens off and start again with a small aperture. Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney, Australia
RE: Pentax ME SE
Howdy Brian, if you take the lens off and face the front of the camera: At about the 1 o'clock position, inside the lens mount ring, is a lever that comes flush with the surface of the lens mount ring. Rotate this lever clockwise (push down) with a fingernail until it is fully down/clockwise. Release the lever, it should quickly and freely return to the CCW position. This is the linkage that tells the camera where the lens is set. (F-Stop) Three things can happen, most common is the lubrication on the lever getting gummy and slowing it's return. It is also possible the lever is bent and rubbing on the lens mount ring or the back of the lens, look for bright marks, dead givaway. Third is that the resistor that this lever moves is dirty, this is unlikely give your description of the symptoms. Hope This Helps Don -Original Message- From: Brian Walters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2005 6:01 PM To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: RE: Pentax ME SE Hi Don Quoting Don Sanderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've seen no differences other than the color and diag. prism in the ones I've owned. What is your meter 'anomaly'? I recently picked up a nice SE (Special Edition?) version of the ME on Ebeagh. It's in great condition apart from an exposure meter anomaly which I can live with for now. Basically the meter reads OK when the lens is first attached but subsequently underexposes. For example, if I fit the lens with its aperture set at f22 it reads OK and continues to read OK as I move the aperture ring up to f1.7 with shutter speeds becoming faster as the lens opening is increased. If I then move the ring back towards f22, shutter speeds remain far too fast. The only way to get reasonable readings again is to take the lens off and start again with a small aperture. Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney, Australia
Re: Pentax ME SE
Exposure compensation, that's the ticket. Brian Walters wrote: G'day all I recently picked up a nice SE (Special Edition?) version of the ME on Ebeagh. It's in great condition apart from an exposure meter anomaly which I can live with for now. As far as I was aware, the only differences between this version and the standard ME were the brown leatherette trim , the SE engraved on the top plate and a diagonal (rather than horizontal) split rangefinder. However, I've come across an advertisement in an old magazine which claims that the SE also has manual overide of exposure meter. If it does, I can't find it! - unless they're referring to the exposure compensation facility, which is hardly unique to the SE. Does anyone have one of these and can confirm or debunk this claim? Cheers Brian Brian Walters Western Sydney, Australia -- I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime. --P.J. O'Rourke
