Blade shutters are modular and disposable and simply replaced completely when they fail, rather than 'serviced.' One probably could service a blade shutter if it failed (take it apart and rebuild it with some new parts) and give it a more-or-less infinite life. So the total usage for a given shutter just kept going up and up. someone got under the hood and tweaked and greased it, and maybe replaced the curtains eventually, and it was back to original performance.

It is the same when I set the shutter speed. regardless of what shutter speed is set the shutter speed is too fast (not even. The old curtain shutters were 'maintainable' - i.e. and everything seemed OK even the automatic metering reacts reasonably. Copal/Seiko-style blade shutters tend to fail all at once - I had a Nikon N8008s shutter implode and spray bits of blade throughout the film chamber, 20 years ago. I got my new K-x and took my first image. A quick look under the bottom plate found the problem and after a slight re-bending of a piece which holds the second curtain open, the shutter now opens and closes on all speeds. 162 Why would shutter count be 82 for new camera I hope this is not too dumb a question. Initially it had a problem with the shutter speeds slower than 1/30 where the second curtain would not close. You will be able to advance the pin/lever to cock the shutter then fire and then advance again. There is a shutter cocked / film advance interlock. They might work overall for 1,000,000 exposures - but for the last 990,000, the top shutter speed may have dropped from 1/1000th to 1/700th or lower, unless 'serviced' along the way. Why would shutter count be 82 for new camera Started Discussions thread Forum: Parent: First: Previous: Next: Flat view. First all Pentax 110s require batteries to work at all ,second the pin/lever on the bottom of the film gate catches a notch in the film to cock the shutter. But it is mostly dependent on having a firmware-based camera that can track and make the info available.įilm camera shutters, especially of a certain age (horizontal-travelling curtains) tended to fail slowly. The Fuji monster-Leica MF film cameras had an exposed-roll counter on the bottom, and perhaps there were a few others. Congrats to GPM! I expect to make it - eventually.

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