John;
This is a definite sign of dying batteries. It's worse with self timer
cause of the current to beep the beeper and flash the LED. When mine
does this, I replace the batteries and all's well.
George
John Hudson wrote:
>
> I experienced the following today and wonder if someone can shine some light
> on the issue.
>
> 1. My TTL meter worked fine in both auto and manual mode, the shutter fired,
> and I wound on to the next frame.
>
> 2. I set the delayed shutter release, took a TTL reading, pressed the
> shutter release button, the camera went into the 12 second wait mode and
> died.
>
> 3. I rewound the film and then set the speed dial to manual 1/60 and the
> shutter triggered.
>
> 4. With no film in the camera the TTL meter worked fine again in auto and
> manual mode both in variety of speed and aperture combinations, the shutter
> fired, and I wound to what would have been the next frame. I tried resetting
> the shutter release button, and went through the motions of taking a delayed
> shutter release shot. The delay worked after the 12 or so second wait
> period.
>
> 5. I rewound the film into the camera and it worked just fine .... see 1
> above.
>
> 6. I repeated step 2 above and again the camera died.
>
> 7. I then repeated steps 3 and 4 above and got the outcome mentioned in step
> 4.
>
> 8. I rewound the film again and tried to repeat step 4 but nothing worked
> except by engaging the manual 1/60 shutter release.
>
> My question is:
>
> Do I have a faulty camera or have I just experienced the symptoms of a dying
> and then a dead set of camera batteries which renders the camera
> inoperative other than through the use of the 1/60 manual shutter option?
>
> Thanks for any help which may be forthcoming.
>
> John Hudson
>
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