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     Wernerjb Tinkerer Username: Wernerjb Post Number: 221 Registered: 07-2006 Rating: N/A |
I have never really been inside a VF 135's lens/shutter. But it is constructed very much like the Konica C35, the Vivitar 35EE or the Mamiya 135 to name just a few of a complete buch of 35mm program shutter needle-trap metering compact cameras. For cleaning purposes on these you usually go in from the front. On the VF's lens there is a ring with two notches right beyond the filter thread which can be screwed out, but my experience with this lens set-up (Color-Skoparex 2,3/40) is very limited, so everything you do is at your own risk here. Are you sure you used the camera with the shutter in auto position and used a fresh battery, as without this the mechanical default time is 1/30 (for flash sync.) The blades (shutter AND aperture bladers are identical, there are only two of them altogether; most probably a Copal program shutter) can also be accessed (and held open with a toothpick!) from the film chamber, as they sit behind the lens glass. If you use cotton swabs moistened with lighter fluid, softly and carefully cleaning the blades should be possible, W. |