canon t70 shutter problem

Hi all,i am very new to this forum so here goes.I have a canon T70 which i haven't used for a few years,i put some batteries in with a view to selling the camera,the camera fired up ok but when i pressed the shutter button it just made a single click (not the normal picture sound!!) The battery check button brings up 3 dashes.There is no film in the camera does this make a difference?
Any help will be much appreciated,thanks
sre

Welcome to APUG .
Try to put shutter/aperture Mode to manual and try again. Film or no film - it should work in manual mode.

I know a few camera models will not fire the shutter without film. However, I downloaded the T70 manual and could not find anywhere that it said the camera needs to be loaded for the shutter to fire.

Try to put batteries out and in (to reset the camera)...