“Error. Press Shutter Release Button Again!.
Does anybody know what the problem is, how it can be fixed or how much it’s likely to cost?
There is a very feint click a few seconds after the shutter button is pressed…..it sounds like the shutter is going down and then a pause and it goes back up. I’ve taken the battery out and put it back in, removed the lens and refitted it, fitted a different lens and cleaned the lens contact points
Any help gratefully received.

is there a hardware reset you could try?

it’s broken 🙁

when you say a faint click – I wonder if that’s the lens stopping down ? Or it could be one curtain moving. Does the viewfinder go blank ? If so the mirror has popped up.

shutter fire is (order may vary):
mirror up
lens stops down
first curtain opens
2nd curtain closes
lens opens up
curtains retract
mirror down

Just looking for a hardware reset. thanks for the tip.

Arse! Viewfinder blacks out and doesn’t clear again until the shutter button is pressed again. I’m guessing it’s very poorly 🙁

Further to the above. Tried the hardware reset. Still the same 🙁

how old is it?

Purchased from Jessops on 22/12/2007 so just over a year old

Select 200 asa as your default film speed / iso.
Put the camera’s control dial to M.
Select a shutter speed of 1/250 second.
(In fact, you could try all the shutter speeds if you like)
It might be that you had it on P and were shooting inside with a slow lens and the shutter speed is 1 second. That would account for the time delay!
Check that the lenses are correctly sighted on the camera.
Let us know how this works out.
Tim

That would account for the time delay!

but not the error message! The sole function of a camera is to take photos, and if it instead generates an error message that can only indicate it is broken 🙁

[quoteThe sole function of a camera is to take photos

Well thank god you’ve cleared that one up for us SFB, I’ll never again doubt your authority on matters photographical. 🙂

No luck with your tips either Ti29er but thanks very much for the suggestions. I’ll take it in to Jessops tomorrow.

Well thank god you’ve cleared that one up for us SFB

I meant that the error message was pointless. It would have been more useful if it had said something like “Shutter jammed, please submit for repair”