ben_karkabe

<p>wow. looks like I bougth a lemon, on ebay. The zoom dial is hardly movable, I hear a little buzz from what I guess is the zoom motor yet the lens remains in 35mm. I used 4 AAA batteries, battery sign indicates 'fully charged'. hugely disappointed.</p>

<p>@Yuri huta: hello. I also thought I could dry-fire so I tested my new 645n with and without the film back. W/o the back, I could simply go through all shutter speeds and all seems fine. putting the back on and then dry-fire, the winder goes bezerk, a high-pitched, whining sound as if the motor doesn't want to stop winding. Then an 'E' message in the display, manual says 'film not properly loaded' which of course means you will have to take the back off and correctly reload the film (yet I have no film available now0<br> Question: is it normal that the camera operates the motor to wind the film (yet no film being loaded) till an 'E' (error, I guess. Manual: 'film not properly loaded') message pops up, after which no functions can be used till the back has been taken off? And could it be that when you do this repeatedly, the motor drags so much power from the batteries that they will be drained after say 5 times of testing and prolongued motor winding (repeatedly ending up with an 'E" message and inoperability)? thanks so much.</p>

<p>i just received a 645N and it looks like brandnew, yet same problem. very weird, it was a combination of things. Began wih the mirror getting stuck when I tested (dry-fyring/no film) all shutter speeds. I could not switch the camera off anymore, the digital display kept showing ISO, so I would take the battery holder out. Then it seemed I got around all that by skipping the 1 snd shutter speed setting. Then a couple of times the motor would start whining like a coffee grinder (I was still only testing shutter speeds), and then that would stop. I did set ISO from the original 50 to 100, started all over and again doing the coffee grinder thing. Then an 'E' sign so the batteries where drained. It seemed. Taking the holder out the batteries were very warm. Yet trying them afterwards in my contax RTSiii they still were usable/had juice.<br> All the contact points seem very clean. The only thing that I ve noticed is the battery holder feels just a bit 'wobbly' after securing it in its place. There is a bit of play/no stiff assemblying with the camera body.<br> The way things are now I think better return it to the eBay seller in Japan. Pity as the price was real good and the camera looks like mint.</p>

<p>hello, have a Q. I just got the 645N fired a couple of shots dry, no lens on. fiddled a bit with the dials and all of a sudden the mirror locked up while shooting. 645N Has no mirror lockup? So for the time being I would say it got stuck. The weird thing is you cannot turn the camera off anymore, meaning I took the battery holder out. Putting the holder back in doesn't change anything by the way. Camera turns on and mirror still stuck. I appreciate your input, I have no idea if this is mechanic failure or my lack of understanding of the works of the camera. It looks brand new yet that in itself doesn't mean anything.</p>

<p>goodday. I am new to the forum. in my younger years, in the 70s, I only had nikkormats - more specific : EL's. Did not want nor needed anything else. Than I sort of got lazy, used compacts for years, then switched to digital. Now I am back to film and decided to switch to Contax. I have a contax RTSiii and I am in love with this camera. The operation is so smooth, I like the feel - much heavier than the nikkormat, which is no lightweight - and the shutter - what to say :) My wife said 'what is that?' hearing the shutter sound. I think I would like to try the 159MM as well. Reading about it, it might turn out to be sort of a contax'nikkormat', with better lenses. Would like to hear your opinion, in case you use or ever used the 159 and one of the nikkormats.</p>