hello kim, thanks alot for all your advice, with regards to my battery cover, i think this is due to corrosion of the battery. i also have a copy of the service manual for my SPII but i cant seem to find any information on how to remove the battery cover. i have tried using the coin but it keeps on slipping

hello stephen,

thanks alot for the reply, i really appreciate it

do you have any ideas on how i can open my battery cover, it seems to be stuck might be that the battery had already leaked. i tried opening the bottom cover and still theres no way of removing the battery since the battery housing comes with the cover. i hope you can give me another brilliant ideas regarding this. i really really want to use the exposure meter although there are alot of pentax users says the its not necessary since spotmatics are very good cameras

again thanks alot for the reply

hello everybody

im a newbie in photography and i recently acquired a 2nd hand asahi pentax SPII with a takumar lens (Takumar 50mm f/1.4).

i dont know if anybody had asked this before, but my problem is this, i have tried changing the aperture setting of my lens and i can see that the aperture is not closing or opening (it is always in its widest setting). is the aperture of my lens still working fine or do i need to have it repaired?

another problem of mine is this, i cant open my battery cover, i would like to open it so that i can use its exposure meter, anybody here had the same problem before that can help me.

any advice or comments will be greatly appreciated. btw nice forum you guys have

2 chris, thanks alot for the info

2 grahamwalton, good for you got the Epson 1240 Flatbed scanner

hello chris, did you create your own lightbox? can you share to us how you created the box? i have a point and shoot digital camera and i want to scan some negatives too but i have no budget for a film scanner, im planning to make my own lightbox to scan my negatives too, any inputs would be greatly appreciated