Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/14

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Subject: [Leica] GR1 rattling
From: Christer Almqvist <chris@almqvist.net>
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 19:22:01 +0000

(This is on topic because the GR1 is my M6 back-up...)

Has anybody with a Ricoh GR1 experienced the following problem (and have
the solution!):

I turn on the camera and the lens moves out, I press the release and the
lens move a little bit further to focus, so far OK, but when I press the
release further the camera just rattles four-five times at very high
frequency, and then lens withdraws to the standby position, but the shutter
has never opened and thus there is no picture.

I have taken out the battery and put it back in, no change.
The same thing happens with flash on or off, with distance preset and not,
and with program mode on and with aperture preset and with automatic mode.
In short the thing never works!

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christer almqvist
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