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Tom_cheshire
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Username: Tom_cheshire
Post Number: 45
Registered: 04-2009
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, June 10, 2009 - 07:10 am: | 
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Anyone know how to work a focal plane shutter on a Thornton Pickard Ruby Reflex? Shouldn't it be the same as on a Graflex? |
Tom_cheshire
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Username: Tom_cheshire
Post Number: 139
Registered: 04-2009
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 25, 2009 - 09:22 am: |
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Found the user manual online. Thanks (fer nuttin'). |
Contax_crisis
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Username: Contax_crisis
Post Number: 23
Registered: 08-2008
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, September 12, 2009 - 02:27 pm: |
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The Thornton Pickard shutters are simple spring operated mechanisms of early British mechanical ingenuity 
On the right hand side is a rotary knob marked time with increasing increments of speed settings for the focal plane shutter. To operate it the locking latch adjacent to the shutter release needs to be unlocked. Wind the rotary dial from an anterior position to posterior via a superior, rather than an inferior turn, as far as the shutter value you would like. Then press the shutter release.
On the other hand, if you're asking how to fix or repair one, I'm not quite sure. I'd like to know though, since I was half-tempted to carve up my working focal plane shutter for a universal front focal plane shutter for another camera... |
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