Rollei 6008 - does this sound like a fault? or am I doing something wrong

[Matt5791]

Something strange with the Rolleiflex 6008 - it's fine in Aperture priority, but if I -decide I want top migrate to manual for a particular shot as soon as I turn the shutter dial to select the speed, it starts telling me the speed will be 15 seconds for the 500 setting and then 30s for the 1/250th and 30s for all other shutter speed settings.

Am I doing something wrong - or has this camera developed a fault. It was fine earlier today and earlier this week.

Any help much appreciated,

Matt.

 

[Grimnar]

Sounds like a fairly common fault with the software misreading the iso dial. Try rotating the iso to 6400, set the manual shutter overide to 500, reset the iso.

 

[TimVermont]

if that doesn't work, you may have dirty contacts under the shutter speed knob. Do a google search, there was an article on how to clean them on p-net complete with pictures.

 

[Matt5791]

Thanks for the help - I'll try these things! If it doesnt work looks like I may have to find a service agent. I suspect servicing this camera is rather like servicing a Bentley - and probably costs almost as much!