AFAIK, gently touching the shutter probably won't hurt it.
Where you have to be careful, especially with vertical run
shutters, is that they are designed to be run clean.
Oil from your mitts could start to clog up the works,
making your next CLA sooner than you'd like.
-Lon
Juan J. Buhler
- Original Message -
From: Frantisek Vlcek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Alan Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 11:42 AM
Subject: Re: never touch the shutter
Don't sweat it too much. The shutter is more sturdy than the manual
makes you feel. I've heard stories of people
Aaron wrote:
When I was working at Sterling we had a guy who brought in a camera (a
Pentax MZ-50, actually) that had a badly deformed shutter with a
thumbprint in the middle of it. He insisted for about fifteen minutes
that it had just been that way when he opened the camera and that no one
When I was working at Sterling we had a guy who brought in a camera (a
Pentax MZ-50, actually) that had a badly deformed shutter with a
thumbprint in the middle of it. He insisted for about fifteen minutes
that it had just been that way when he opened the camera and that no one
had touched
ROTFLMAO,
That's great. Did you tell him that the film he bought from you should
be returned too, as it tended to react and degrade when light hit it?
*Sigh*
Bill
Aaron Reynolds wrote:
When I was working at Sterling we had a guy who brought in a camera (a
Pentax MZ-50, actually) that
Hi to everybody from Sweden!
Here is another stupid(?) question from a newbie. The Pentax Z1-p manual
seriously warns you never to touch the shutter. Well, to my short experience
that is not always so easy. I think a couple of times I've actually touched
the shutter slightly with the end
I think a couple of times I've actually touched
the shutter slightly with the end of the film (that often seems to have its
own life). How dangerous is that? How can you check if the shutter still
works properly?
Don't sweat it too much. The shutter is more sturdy than the manual
makes you
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