Here's the situation. Canon A2E with several different Canon lenses, fresh battery, with or without the VG-10 grip, CF#2 (leader out rewind) on or off, forced early rewind or end of roll auto rewind. None of this makes any difference.

When the camera rewinds the little film roll indicator blinks in the LCD like it's supposed to. I pull the film roll out, put another one in and close the door, but the indicator still blinks like it hasn't rewound or noticed that the roll is changed, and the camera is locked up. To get it to unlock, I have to remove the film and fire the shutter (camera back open or closed). Only then will the LCD come back to life & show other camera functions. Then I have to replace the film and shut the back, but still it wont advance the film to the first frame until after I press the shutter part way down.

I don't see any switches on the camera back to let the camera know that the back is open, and the key seems to be pulling the film can away from the DX contacts and then firing the shutter. I know I can live with it, but I have to remember to press the shutter with the film out to get it to work & this slows me down at times.

Any body have any ideas?

-- Jim Strutz (jimstrutz@juno.com), June 11, 2000

Answers

Sounds like a job for an authorized Canon repair shop to tackle. Some switch, electrical or mechanical, is not doing its job.

-- Chris Gillis (chris@photogenica.net), June 11, 2000.

Yeah, but what switch, etc. I don't mind getting into the guts of this thing, but I'd like to know what I'm looking for. Probably too obscure of a problem for this forum, but I thought I'd try, just in case some tech type had some info.

-- Jim Strutz (jimstrutz@juno.com), June 12, 2000.

You could probably take it apart, but it may be a can of worms. I would worry that if I fixed it, if I had effected somethign else, i.e. exposure, and woudl feel that I could never trust it again.

Also, are you sure the new battery was fresh. Probably yes, but these things do really wierd stuff with dying batteries. Mine is never predicatble, which pleases me to no end in some situations.

-- Chris Gillis (chris@photogenica.net), June 15, 2000.