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Author Message   Chris E Rating: N/A Votes: 0 Posted on Tuesday, June 21, 2005 - 09:40 am:    I have a Canon AV-1 which takes fantastic pictures but has developed a fault. I hope that somebody else may have experienced this and be able to advise if it's worth attempting to fix it. The shutter speed is way to slow for the 1st shot after the camera has not been used for about 5 hours, subsequent shots are perfect but if I leave it for a while the 1st shot 'always' is too slow. I'd guess there is a capacitor/magnet not holding charge or similar, I know electrolytic capacitors dry out after many years and change charateristics, I'm optimisticly hoping this may be the case and is fixable. Can anyone please advise?????