<p>Hi everyone,</p>
<p>I recently encountered an issue with a Mamiya RZ67, that I've got on long loan from a non-photographer friend who had it in the family. I've used this specific camera a few times to know that it otherwise functions well (unless this is the beginning of the end? D:)</p>
<p>What happened -<br>
was shooting some landscapes using the mirror up function (fairly new to the method, but done it a couple times now to start getting used to it), on a new roll of film. Frame 1, no prob, advance to frame 2, no prob, then frame 3... I fire, all seems well, until I use the shutter cocking lever to advance and it never stops, and never advances the film. It's like the lever has gone limp - when pushing the lever forward to advance the film, the winding knob on the film back twitches but doesn't make a full turn.<br>
And it makes a rackety sound version of how it'd normally sounds when advancing the film.</p>
<p>I've looked around the web and the forum, and the closest I've come is that it might be that the winding mechanisms aren't talking properly anymore between the body and the back. If I take the back off, I can advance the film by turning it with my nail (where the pin from the body would go), but I'm still left with not being able to fire the shutter once the back is on the body again.<br>
Tried a new battery, tried rotating the back and firing, and rotating the back without firing; tried simply putting the camera in "R" mode and pushing the lever slightly (read this somewhere), tried a variety of according-to-the-manual/first-things-first methods but no luck yet...</p>
<p>Any magical advice out there that I have completely overlooked, or will I have to hand this camera over to someone to have a look?</p>