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     Old_school Tinkerer Username: Old_school Post Number: 100 Registered: 04-2011 Rating: N/A |
N: Clean the contacts on the switches & the energy cell compartment, even if they do not look bad. Use either an old ink or typewriter eraser or glass brush for the compartment & drag a strip of an old business card through the contacts of the switches while pinching them together with tweezers. The other possible culprit may be an oxidized conector on the other side of the battery compartment. If you feel comfortable, pop the prism off & check the meter needle to see if it got disstorted some how & draging on the prism or condensor. The prism may be removed without removing the frame it lives in as this is nice to be carefull of as the FTbn has the shutter speed indicator attached. The canon meter is a very ruged unit & I have been surprized as to how well they have held up for all these years. The needle may have a residue on it that came from the evironment or the deterioration of the foam in the camera & this of course will cause it to stick, but this is most likely to happen at the extreme ends as it hit the bumpers or stops. If you run a check on the prior chats you will see a whole lot of information that has been posted very recently on this camera, plus the battery delema. Hope this helps! The Best Mike.... |