Please Help Me With My Find!!!

[icjigga]

Hey everyone. i was on vacation last week and i picked this up at a flea market. paid $30 for it. it all came in a pretty worn out bag.
Included:
Minolta XG-m
28mm lense
50mm lense
100-300mm zoom lense
2x converter
an assortment of filters
two lense hoods
flash that may or may not work
pocket/table top tripod
some perfume and cough drops lol

the batteries on the camera were dead. i just picked some up and put them in. the meter works fine. the problem is that the film advance lever wont crank. my dad and i cant figure it out and he has had a good amount of experience with film cameras. i might bring it to a shop to see if its and easy fix but it figured i'd ask here first. any ideas what the problem might be?

thanks for the help
Gian

I know this was a while back and you may not even be active on this blog but I am curious what is the current condition of these items?

 

[WhaleDaughter]

The lever on my Voigtlander Vitomatic IIIb wouldn't advance until I put film in the camera. Still not entirely sure why, but I've only had it for 3 weeks, and they've been busy, busy weeks.

I hope the camera shop is able to repair it without much fuss or expense.