Nikon N6006 Shutter inoperative

[Kino]

OK, I guess there was a reason it was $1 at the garage sale!

When I first got the camera, the battery was so weak it would illuminate the LCD, make some faint clicking sound when the shutter release was pressed and then die.

After purchasing a new 223 Lithium Ion battery today, it seems quite peppy but i noticed that the shutter will not move in any setting, manual or otherwise, and the display immediately shows "ERR" flashing after attempting an exposure.

The mirror flies up, the wind mechanism snaps briskly... only no shutter movement at all.

I have a whole $14 in it (the battery accounting for $13 of that), so it's not the end of the World, but I hate to trash a camera without some effort to try to fix it.

Any ideas anyone?

 

[winger]

Depending on the lens that's on it, the N6006 will freeze up if the button to lock the aperture ring isn't locked. I'd try playing with that a bit - try putting it at say f8 and see if it'll fire and try locking it (it locks just beyond the smallest aperture) and see if that works. If the lens is much older, then it might only work locked.
(I'm not a big Nikon person, but we had this model where I worked and this happened a lot.)

 

[Kino]

Winger,

Thanks for the tip, I'll keep playing around with the body and see if anything will happen.

The lenses I have are older manual type lenses (sorry not an Nikon guy), but the camera seems to take them without a problem.

The problem exists even when no lens is on the body, but I don't know if a sensor interferes with operation when there is no film in the camera.

In playing with it now, I can detect a very, very slight movement of the shutter when I trip the release, but it is so tiny, it is almost imaginary. Wonder if a linkage is detached in the body?

Anyway, thanks for the tips; I'll play with it a bit more and if nothing comes of it, offer it for parts to someone.

 

[winger]

Good luck. Hope you can get something out of it. That camera was never my favorite as I frequently got calls at home asking how to fix it (I was the only chemist with photography experience). It was kinda finicky and had many things to adjust that need you to push, turn, or move two things at once. It doesn't always play well with older lenses and will fire when it's not in focus (even on auto everything). Assuming it fires. It's also an old enough model that something could be fried.

 

[PhotoJim]

Not that this helps you, but if you get the camera working, be sure to push the battery under the lip. It's not at all obvious unless you know about it. Apparently battery life is significantly extended if you do this (according to the user manual).