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Broken_yolk
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Username: Broken_yolk
Post Number: 1
Registered: 05-2008
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, May 12, 2008 - 06:32 pm: | 
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Just recently purchased a 1961 Canonet. Really looking forward to using it. Found this great website and have been reading through some of great free manuals. have learned how to work the shutter and that i locks if there is not enough light. However, there seems to be another set of leafs that are completely closed. I'm having a hard time figuring out what these are? how they got like this? and how to fix this? i have to assume that this camera does not take batteries since there is no place for them. The leafs seem to be in the lens... |
Rick_oleson
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Username: Rick_oleson
Post Number: 580
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 09:52 pm: |
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I'm not sure... are you talking about the shutter blades, which would be completely closed except during the exposure, and the aperture blades, which would never be completely closed but would describe an opening that varies in size depending on the amount of light reaching the meter cell? |
Glenn
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Username: Glenn
Post Number: 349
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 - 08:05 am: |
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I may be talking utter *****! However I think that when the meter cell goes defunct, the aperture blades remain fully closed. Your first test should be to see if the aperture blades move, when the meter cell is exposed to bright light. |
