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Post by nickr on Mar 5, 2023 12:54:27 GMT
Saw an EOS 1 for next to nothing described as spares/repair. Reported problems - powers on but won't take pictures, and doesn't focus correctly. Took a punt on it, hoping I knew what the first problem was, albeit utterly puzzled by the second.
And - yes, I did. It was the well-known EOS 1/1N/3 "bc" problem, which I was hoping for. How to fix it? Turn the camera on, get the error. Remove the battery (but leave the camera on). Remove 5 screws and loosen 2 others - you have to bend back the body covering to do it - and remove the front plate. Refit the battery, press the shutter button, and tap the mirror magnet repeatedly (or put another magnet on it) until the shutter fires. You might need to repeat it several times until the shutter fires every time, then replace the body covering and screws - the tricky bit being making sure the depth of field preview button (a) stays in, and (b) engages the body correctly. And when I say "tricky", it's really not, just the most awkward part of the repair (fell out twice, and I had to refit the cover 3 times to get it to line up. 5-10 minutes from start to finish even so.
Bit puzzled about the focus issue - so removed the eyecup, adjusted the dioptric adjuster, and looked fine. Refitted the eyecup, all blurry. So twigged the problem - a +1.5 dioptre eyesight correction lens in the eyecup. So an even easier fix.
So now I have a fully functional EOS 1, albeit with no eyecup and with the power booster cover missing - and I do need to do a little surgery on the hotshoe as the two rails are a little bent down.
So even (relatively) modern electronic cameras can be fixed easily in some cases, and this is a true modern-day classic that probably deserves some use.
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Post by zou on Mar 5, 2023 18:15:03 GMT
Not as easy as when the film advance knob fell off my Holga. Just glued it back on.
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Post by John Farrell on Mar 5, 2023 20:35:54 GMT
I bought a FED 4 whose shutter wouldn't cock. I fixed it by setting the rewind control to "advance".
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Post by peterba on Mar 5, 2023 23:20:18 GMT
Not as easy as when the film advance knob fell off my Holga. Just glued it back on.
With my Holga, it seems far more likely that the camera would fall off the film advance knob.  |
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Post by steveandthedogs on Mar 6, 2023 12:20:34 GMT
Bought a non-working Vito II, fixed it by putting a film in it.
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Post by terrywoodenpic on Mar 6, 2023 19:38:27 GMT
Bought a non-working Vito II, fixed it by putting a film in it. S A lot of the voigtlanders had to have a film in to engage the sprockets. Though you could rotate them by hand with the back open to make checks. |
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Post by John Farrell on Mar 6, 2023 21:06:08 GMT
Bought a non-working Vito II, fixed it by putting a film in it. S A lot of the voigtlanders had to have a film in to engage the sprockets. Though you could rotate them by hand with the back open to make checks. The Canonet Junior camera is the same. |
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Post by nickr on Mar 6, 2023 21:54:51 GMT
A lot of the voigtlanders had to have a film in to engage the sprockets. Though you could rotate them by hand with the back open to make checks. The Canonet Junior camera is the same. On a totally different scale, the Pentax 67 also requires a film to be in for the shutter to trip - although there is a key you can use to test it without a film. I'm sure I've at least one other camera similar, but can't for the life of me think what it is. |
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Post by gray1720 on Mar 6, 2023 22:09:28 GMT
I can't remember which of my uber-cheap box cameras it was now, but I did fix one by levering the front off with a butter knife to get to the shutter, and glueing back the stray piece of cardboard that was blocking it.
I fixed the red window on another from the same job lot with a piece of Babybel cheese wrapper.
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Post by peterba on Mar 6, 2023 22:20:11 GMT
On a totally different scale, the Pentax 67 also requires a film to be in for the shutter to trip - although there is a key you can use to test it without a film. I'm sure I've at least one other camera similar, but can't for the life of me think what it is.Do you have a Bronica SQ-a, Nick? That camera requires a film to be loaded, in order to cock the shutter - although setting the multiple exposure lever overrides that. |
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Post by nickr on Mar 6, 2023 23:22:24 GMT
On a totally different scale, the Pentax 67 also requires a film to be in for the shutter to trip - although there is a key you can use to test it without a film. I'm sure I've at least one other camera similar, but can't for the life of me think what it is.Do you have a Bronica SQ-a, Nick? That camera requires a film to be loaded, in order to cock the shutter - although setting the multiple exposure lever overrides that. No, no Bronicas, sadly.  I always wanted an ETR, but ended up buying the Mamiya M645 because I got it very cheap because the battery was in the wrong way, so it appeared to be broken, as above. Did ponder the SQ-A when I was shooting some weddings back in the mid-90s, but new colour print films like Fuji NPS and Reala, and Kodak Portra made 35mm much more practical and vastly cheaper. I'm thinking small and possibly cheap for the one I can't remember, but I really can't remember. |
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Post by peterba on Mar 7, 2023 14:50:08 GMT
Did ponder the SQ-A when I was shooting some weddings back in the mid-90s, but new colour print films like Fuji NPS and Reala, and Kodak Portra made 35mm much more practical and vastly cheaper.
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Post by nickr on Mar 7, 2023 15:10:00 GMT
Did ponder the SQ-A when I was shooting some weddings back in the mid-90s, but new colour print films like Fuji NPS and Reala, and Kodak Portra made 35mm much more practical and vastly cheaper.
Absolutely. Used to use it in the Mamiya as my film of choice, and it got some decent use in Rolleiflexes, too. Very nice film. Scanned nicely, too, so my usage of it increased quite a bit when I realised that. Certainly made me look better as a wedding photographer - it handled contrast brilliantly, resolved as much as you could want, and would enlarge far better than I ever expected. |
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Post by peterba on Mar 9, 2023 8:19:13 GMT
Absolutely. Used to use it in the Mamiya as my film of choice, and it got some decent use in Rolleiflexes, too. Very nice film. Scanned nicely, too, so my usage of it increased quite a bit when I realised that. Certainly made me look better as a wedding photographer - it handled contrast brilliantly, resolved as much as you could want, and would enlarge far better than I ever expected. Yes, it's a superb film. I would like to use it more, but the price has become ridiculous.
I recently found an old invoice (March 2019) for a five-pack of 160ASA 120 roll Portra. Price: £24.99 - delivered!
By contrast, I've just checked the current price..... £86.98 (including delivery). An increase of 248% in four years. WTF?  |
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Post by nickr on Mar 9, 2023 8:58:33 GMT
Absolutely. Used to use it in the Mamiya as my film of choice, and it got some decent use in Rolleiflexes, too. Very nice film. Scanned nicely, too, so my usage of it increased quite a bit when I realised that. Certainly made me look better as a wedding photographer - it handled contrast brilliantly, resolved as much as you could want, and would enlarge far better than I ever expected. Yes, it's a superb film. I would like to use it more, but the price has become ridiculous.
I recently found an old invoice (March 2019) for a five-pack of 160ASA 120 roll Portra. Price: £24.99 - delivered!
By contrast, I've just checked the current price..... £86.98 (including delivery). An increase of 248% in four years. WTF? I think your 2019 price was particularly good, to be fair - not a lot different to the prices from 20 years ago - but even so, prices have gone crazy recently. And that's if you can get your hands on any film at all... especially colour film. I've reasonable stocks of B&W in both 35mm and 120, but only one roll of in-date colour print film in 35mm, plus my stocks of outdated film that I'm working through. Prices doubled over 20 years? I can easily accept that. Prices up 250% over 4 years? Nope. |
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I always wanted an ETR, but ended up buying the Mamiya M645 because I got it very cheap because the battery was in the wrong way, so it appeared to be broken, as above. Did ponder the SQ-A when I was shooting some weddings back in the mid-90s, but new colour print films like Fuji NPS and Reala, and Kodak Portra made 35mm much more practical and vastly cheaper. 