Minolta xg-m not working?
hey i have a minolta xg-m that was my grandpa's until he passed away and now i have it and im not sure why i cant get the damn thing to work. i dont know if its a manual camera or if it needs batteries to work, which it shouldnt because you must manually cauck the shutter and manually roll the film back into its casing and manually focus it and manually change the aperture. but the problem is that when i try to pull the lever back to cauck the film and shutter, nothing happens. i pull it back a little and it just stopps. not as if its sticky or anything, it just stops like if it were being held from advancing with a bolt or something it just doesnt even budge. also, i've put in two 1.55v silver oxide batteries and when i switched the meter on nothing happened. the light that shows if the battery is good or not doesnt even go on so im not sure whats wrong with it. if anybody knows something or other about this camera that might help me i'd really like to know. like, if its all manual(aside from the exposure me
Here is the manual. Read it and understand it before you mess with the camera so that you don't accidentally forece something and break it:
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You cannot continue advancing the film lever because the camera stops advancing the film lever when it goes far enough to advance one frame. You have to click the shutter to allow the film advance lever to the next frame. (page 16 of the manual).
I assume you put the batteries in with the (+) side facing into the camera? If not, it will not power the camera. (page 9 of the manual). BTW the shutter will not release if the camera is not getting power.
The XG-M is a manual focus, manual film advance camera that can operate in manual or aperture priority automatic exposure mode. The Aperture priority mode means you set the aperture size and the camera automatically set the shutter speed.
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