brendan_odonohue

<p>Robert - I've tried 3 fresh batteries now, two that I had which expire 2021, and then a new one I purchased 2 days ago to rule out the other two being bad. No change.<br> Ray - That was one of the things I did in my original testing, there is no change when using mirror lock up unfortunately.<br> I'm bringing the camera over for repair this morning.<br> One thing I did a couple of days ago, while I was again trying to get it to fire, I had the lens, the back and the prism off and in Multi mode, it wouldn't fire as per usual and I gave it a light rap with my knuckle on the side of the camera and then it fired off one shot and wound on.<br> Sounds like the shutter is simply sticking - hopefully the repair guy will have some luck with it!<br> Thanks for the responses.<br> Bren</p>

<p>Hi Folks,<br> I'm hoping someone can help me here with some ideas.<br> I just purchased a Mamiya 645 Pro TL on eBay and I'm having trouble with it.<br> I bought it with the 70mm 2.8 leaf shutter lens and it has the AE prism finder 401 and the power winder.<br> The reason for my purchase is that I wanted to replace my crappy 645E body with a better match for my 80mm 1.9 as I didn't like the screen nor the non-prism finder of the one I had.<br> Anyway, it arrived yesterday and I can't get the shutter to fire, although it did fire maybe 3 or 4 times out of the several hundred attempts so far.<br> I have literally tried everything and at this point I am pretty sure its just a fault with the camera, but I'll let you know what I've done and see if anyone else has any nuggets of wisdom!<br> I have tried 2 sets of fresh batteries for both the winder and the camera, and they all check out fine with the battery checkers.<br> I have ensured I am not using the exposure lock on the front - have tried both normal mode (white square) and timed mode, no luck.<br> Basically what's happening is that I will half press the shutter, the meter will show its reading, and if I fully press the shutter, there is a small delay and then I hear a tiny click from inside the camera, as if something is attempting to initiate the shutter firing but failing.<br> When I load film, the winder will load it correctly to the first frame, but naturally since the shutter is not firing, the film wont advance past that point.<br> The darkslide is removed, and it is placed in the holder (and left out of the holder as a test too).<br> I've tried shooting in all the modes, auto exposure as well as various speeds including bulb, to rule out a connection problem to the AE prism. <br> I've tried firing the shutter with the back, the lens, the prism off and all combinations of these attached. (it should fire with nothing attached and film loaded once I don't have auto exposure set on the exposure dial).<br> I ruined a roll of film to load a 2nd in case it didn't like how the first was loaded. Yes, I am loading the film correctly.<br> I tried my 70mm leaf as well as my 80 1.9 with no luck.<br> I've tried normal and multi exposure modes.<br> I'm out of ideas, so just want to try to see if there's anything I'm missing before I return to the seller all the way from Ireland to the US!<br> Is there something about the leaf shutter lens that was attached when I opened the box that might have put things out of sync when I removed and put on the 80mm?<br> Randomly while testing the million things I was doing, it fired a couple of shots, but then with no change to anything, it failed to continue past those couple of frames.<br> Please help me... I'm hoping there's some life left in the old thing yet! :)<br> Thanks <br> Bren</p>