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<p>UPDATE: </p> <p>Was trying to clean the mirror moment ago due to some visible dust on my viewfinder after changing my lens. Used rocket blower and some microfiber cloth to clean it. <br /><br />I think I might have done something wrong because after cleaning, even though the mirror and focusing mirror looks clean (I used torch), from the viewfinder there are considerable more dust visible through it. Looked online for solution, tried using rocket blower from other direction, tried shaking camera, and also vacuuming through a straw (while being careful not touching focusing screen), nothing works. <br> Some of the result suggested that there might be dust on the other side of focusing screen. <br> Does anyone here know the safe way to open up my camera (to sufficient extent) to clear off the dust?<br> I know it doesn't affect the IQ but if is really annoying shooting with these particles present. </p>

<p>Jeff, <br> Thank you so much for your advice. I got the information and components required to repair my XG-M (should I want to do it) and is pondering whether I should proceed with opening the camera and soldering the capacitors. <br> Anyway, as mentioned by Mark before, he has bought several cameras from John and it worked fantastic for him thus far. Have you purchased camera from him before or you have only sent your camera to him to be serviced?</p> <p>And,</p> <p>I am seriously considering purchasing Minolta Camera again (even though I like their design the most among all film SLR), would Olympus SLRs or Nikon SLRs be a good choice as an alternative (that will last for a long time)?</p>

<p><strong>Jeff, </strong><br> I believe sending the camera alone back to Kansas, have it repaired to John and have it send back to me is already sufficient for me to purchase a mint condition X-700. Since I am not living in Europe, Asia in fact. <br> Would you be able to point me in direction that I may acquire the required parts of XG-M that I can solder it myself? I have done some electrical work previously and recently with my laptop (which costs a lot more than XG-M) so I think if I were to be able to get those parts, I may be able to open it up myself and fix the problem. <br> Just to make sure you understood my problem correctly, AUTO mode works erratically, sometimes they shot, but on some scene, they keep showing me the downward/upward arrow and wouldn't shoot. But whenever I switch to MANUAL mode, they shoot just fine. Is this normally caused by faulty capacitors?</p> <p><strong>Mark,</strong><br> That sounds nice, would you be able to point me to his eBay seller page? I tried googling his name with eBay but fail to find anything significant.</p>

<p>Greeting all, </p> <p>I just bought a Minolta XG-M few days back from eBay. <br> I loved the camera on the first sight and decided to play around the camera for a little before loading an actual film in it. <br> However, on the third day, I notice some inconsistency from the camera itself. I found it difficult to be replicated but it goes like this. </p> <p>The metering of the camera works fine (slightly slower than their digital counterpart but I read its normal). <br> The problem is that, lets take for example, in this particular scene, the metering suggest that I should use shutter speed of 1/100 (mind you I am on AUTO mode) with LED beside the shutter speed (in viewfinder), and whenever I tried pressing it, the LED indicator would jump to the top of its range (indicating that the scene is too bright for my setting, and when I release my shutter button, the LED indicator would come back to 1/100. <br> It happens to both higher and lower range of shutter speed. i.e.,<br> <strong>LED blinking beside 1/500, shutter pressed, LED jumps to upwards arrow,</strong><br> <strong>OR</strong><br> <strong>LED blinking beside 1/5, shutter pressed, LED jumps to downwards arrow. </strong></p> <p>I have tried replacing the battery and checking shutter speed manually (using manual mode). My camera will shoot on ALL speed but it is AUTO mode that I am having problem with. <br> I also brought my camera to local film developer and he told me he has never seen anything like it. </p> <p>Any input would be greatly appreciated. </p>