From: Carl Weese (cweese@earthlink.net)
Date: 08/16/02-01:58:46 PM Z
Shannon,
No need to keep adjusting film speed--just look at the meter and find the
f/stop for the *actual* speed instead of the marked one.
You can practice opening and closing the shutter with a cable release, at
the B setting, while releasing the shutter on your good lens with your other
hand, for comparison. You'll quickly get a feel for 1/2, 1/4, and full,
which is all you really need. On an old Ilex #5 shutter if you "work the
action" on the shutter as quickly/smoothly as possible, it gives a quite
reliable 1/4 second. A copal #3 would probably give 1/8th doing the same
thing. Just compare to a shutter that's working properly.---Carl
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>From: Shannon Stoney <shannonstoney@earthlink.net>
>To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>Subject: Re: a good lens dealer?
>Date: Fri, Aug 16, 2002, 2:43 PM
>
> 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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