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Mindcircus
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Username: Mindcircus
Post Number: 1
Registered: 06-2009
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, July 13, 2009 - 02:24 am: | 
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Hello, it's my first time posting here. I have a Nikon FM10 and the advance knob is stuck. I know it's one of the cheap models of Nikon but I would like to give it life again... Any ideas where to start from? |
Bossman
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Username: Bossman
Post Number: 90
Registered: 02-2009
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, July 13, 2009 - 08:00 pm: |
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It's been a while since I serviced an FM10 so I could have some details wrong but here goes: if the FM10 has a setting on the speed dial for manually releasing the shutter, turn it to that setting and see if shutter releases. Also make sure your batteries are strong enough to fire the shutter......one other thing, remove the bottom plate and see if you can manually release the advance so you can advance it and possibly re-cycle the operation. Hope this will help. |
Ethostech
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Username: Ethostech
Post Number: 123
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 17, 2009 - 06:00 am: |
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What Bossman is telling you - is that the film advance lever may not be stuck at all - but cannot be advanced because the shutter is already cocked. As with most cameras - it is designed that way so as to avoid unintentional film wastage as by winding on unexposed frames. And to answer Bossman's question, the FM-10 does not have a siutter speed setting to work without battery-power.
Did you know that the cocked shutter cannot be released UNLESS the film advance lever is in its initial stand-off position?
If the film advance lever is pushed fully closed flush with the rear eadge of the top-plate, the shutter-release is locked and an exposure cannot be made.
Install fresh batteries, pull the film advance lever to its stand-off position, and try again. |
Ronnies
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Username: Ronnies
Post Number: 2
Registered: 09-2009
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, September 22, 2009 - 01:25 am: |
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All the FM10 shutter speeds whould work without a battery. It's a mechanical camera but do watch out for the shutter lock with the wind on lever pushed in to the body as Ethostech said. |
Hovaness
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Username: Hovaness
Post Number: 79
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, September 27, 2009 - 06:22 pm: |
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If you take off the bottom plate, you may find that there is a simple tolerance problem in the parts of the double exposure prevention mechanism. I have fixed several jammed FM10 cameras by just filing a bit off one of the locking levers. It is hard to describe the layout of the mechanism in words, but you will easily see what the parts in question do once you have the bottom off the camera. Evidently the manufacturing tolerances on these Cosina-made bodies were not up to Nikon standards. |
