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Username: Grandmasta
Post Number: 1
Registered: 01-2009
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, January 02, 2009 - 02:10 pm: | 
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Hi everyone,
Canon AE-1 (not the squeal): the shutter/mirror is stuck.
When taking a picture, most of the time the mirror/shutter open and do not close again.
If I press the battery check button it always releases. Furthermore, when set e.g. 1/1000 and keep my finger on the release button, it stays open (is this normal?).
Is the release button / time setting mechanism broken? what could be the problem, I do not think it is the canon squeal; neither the battery (tried one of my other ae-1); nor the magnet on the bottom. (After dissembling the bottom now it sometimes works, but no pattern discernable).
Thanks for help in advance
Gerald |
