![]() I could replace the wire, but I couldn’t see where the original wire went because it disappeared into the middle of the camera and I wasn’t confident about stripping such a small camera down. The problem was, this lead was very short and there wasn’t any wire left to strip back and remake the connection. Sure enough, when I looked closely at the black wire which connected to the battery compartment it was indeed not connected. What I discovered was that the wiring on these cameras is problematic and it is not unusual for the battery wires to come loose. ![]() I first took off the top plate and then the bottom plate but couldn’t find anything so I did an Internet search for possible Hi-Matic F shutter problems. With this in place I tried the battery check switch but couldn’t get the check light to work so I assumed there were other issues. I then shorted the other battery compartment out with a bit of silver foil so the voltage was approximately correct. I solved this by using two SR44 1.5 v cells with a bit of sticky tape round them to join them together which acts as one 3v cell and fitted this into the place where one cell would go.
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