thomaspatrick

Hello all I had the classic hexar AF issue with the shutter release not firing properly, or firing only with fully pressing and holding and wiggling around. So I did the fix, and it worked very well temporarily Its now gone back to the same issue. Sometimes half pressing achieves focus, but then reframing and fully pressing to engage the shutter seems to reset the focus, then fire. So focusing on a person, for example, off centre, would result in them being out of focus and the centre of frame (background) being crisp. I would imagine the normal issue occurs for a reason, and perhaps my camera is a worse example of it. Has anyone had this and found a work around? I tried sticking a bit of something to the shutter rod to lengthen it. Thank you for any help or ideas!

Hello! I bought an Auto S3 recently - very happy as i wanted one ages ago and never got around to finding a good one. It arrived, wobbly lens as expected (any tips welcome) - with the rangefinder slightly off, and lots of dust inside the VF. Fixed all these things, put new light seals in. It's now basically like new. Then, I dropped it on the carpet, from knee height. A very soft landing. But it's ruined. Meter through the VF says T4.0 all the time. If I shake it a little sometimes it changes and says another stop for a while. The aperture always opens to the same place no matter where I'm pointing it - maybe 2.8 or something. Battery change does nothing. Changing shutter speed from 500 all the way to ⅛ does nothing. Always the same aperture. I was about to take it back apart in the hope the needle was just caught on something. But the fact the aperture is always closing to the same stop makes me confused what could be the problem. Id love to hear this is fixable. It seems quite illogical to me. Hope you guys can help! And thanks for reading :)