Yes, that about explains it. The shutter mechanism is too slow, and is beyond economic repair. It doesn’t see new films either, the film icon blinks as if it’s still rewinding. The other body was even worse – it wouldn’t stop winding on!

I took them to a camera repair shop and the engineer had a good look at them, but quoted a price of over £100 each and approximately 3 weeks for a repair, as Minolta/Konica no longer exist he couldn’t really send them anywhere. I can buy another new body for half that. So they’re both beyond economic repair. I could spend that on a few 1gb xD cards (if I had it)!

Looking forward to Cosford next weekend. Will concentrate on using my digital camera, and mini-dv video camera instead. Oh, and enjoying the show!

Time to move on, I think.