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Daniel Ob, what kind of agitation did you use, and what if I used R09 instead of Rodinal? I think there should be no significant change in (starting) times. Am I correct?<br>

Thanks

<br><br><i>Jiri</i>

Some more facts:

I'm located in the central Europe, in the Czech Republic, so sending to US is out of question...

Yes, it would be nice to contact the seller - Adorama btw., which I did, they offered a $100 remboursement, which so far didn't get to my credit card (2months since I bought it). (In the auction, the camera was declared as mint condition)

And yes, i'd probably contact a pentax service, but right now it's eating on my mind. As a technical person I won't to know what I did wrong...

Jiri

Hello folks,

recently I bought (through ebay) used Pentax 67II camera. When the

camera came to me in the packaging, it was turned on and showed "E-30"

on its display (no film was in, no lens was attached, only the

non-metered prism). After opening the backdoor and then closing it,

the error message disappeared. Since then everything went quite OK. In

the camera manual, I read, that in case of all errors starting with

3x, the camera should be sent for servicing.

Because I was eager to shoot I did so (meaning shot, I did not send it

to a service), and everything went OK. I had some 10 (120format) films

through it.

But for yesterday, the camera started repeatedly displaying the "E-30"

message, which could only be rid by opening the back door. At first I

thought, that the film wasn't inserted right, because it started with

a new roll of film, after the 1st shot. So I opened the door, checked

the position of spools sacrificing the shot (and some 2-3 more), but

that was not the problem. [btw. the camera thought it had a new roll

in, so It started counting from 1 in the mid of the roll]. After

taking 2 shots it again displayed this message. I took out the roll,

put in a fresh one and succesfully shot 7 or 8 frames.

Now the question: does anyone know what kind of error is it?

(mechanical, electronic,...) Is the only help sending the camera for

service? Did I do anything wrong when I did not send the camera for

service at once?

Thanks in advance...

Jiri