From: Shannon Stoney (shannonstoney@earthlink.net)
Date: 08/16/02-01:43:25 PM Z
Rocky wrote:
> Professional Camera Repair
> Mike Hakim
> 713-621-3627
> 4410 Richmond
> Houston, TX
> He has done my work for years and is very good and reasonably priced.
> He can test it for you and give you a written report of the performance.
> Phone him and I am sure he could give you a cost for that over then
> phone.
This guy is great! He's helped me before. If I can't get it fixed by the
people that sold it to me, I'll take it to Mike.
>
> In my opinion it doesn't matter what the exposure time actually is for a
> particular setting. The important thing is that it is consistent and
> repeatable. Then if you know the actual time for the dial setting it is
> a simple matter to compensate for it. The dial numbers are only
> representative figures that are close. Manufacturing practices must
> allow for tolerances otherwise none of us could afford anything if it
> were all zero tolerance. Of course new manufacturing equipment allows
> for closer tolerances, in general. Some of the old stuff is still top
> quality.
I don't mind if the shutter isn't exactly perfect, although I have one that
is, and it certainly makes things easier. What I mind is that you would
have to use different film speeds with different shutter speeds, the way it
is now! That is, the 1 second setting is really about two seconds, but the
1/2 second is not 1 second. So it's not consistent at all. It seems like
it would take a lot of testing to figure out separate film speeds for all
the different shutter speeds!
Anyway the people I got it from said to send it back and they would fix it.
I'm kind of surprised, though, that they didn't test it before they sent it.
Maybe as Nick said it's just been in retirement for a while and needs to get
limbered up again. I've used it for about three days, though, and it's
still slow.
The thing is, I am only going to be in TN for a week more, so I want to use
it this week and then send it back. I think the solution is to just use the
T setting.
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