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Subject: Re: [OM] 35 RC
From: Andras Iklody-Szabo <isza@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:57:52 -0400
Thanks, John! I am not worried about the 1/500 but the pedestrian 1/60 and
1/125.

If this type of camera is so problematic to adjust and the speeds are
significantly off, can it be, that these cameras were never intended for
slide film, like most of today's cheap p&s?

Thanks also to everybody on the list for info and help over the past
months. Wishing you all a merry Christmas and many more OMs and Zuikos for
99

Andras Iklody-Szabo


>Adjusting a shutter like that is tricky.  Afjustment is made by either
>filing a cam down (to slow the speed) or swag the cam out to speed it
>up.
>Keep in mind that in a leaf shutter camera of this type, 1/500 is almost
>always around 1/300th and cannot be made faster.  I've personally never
>adjusted the speeds, instead adjusting the meter needle position to
>correct for auto exposure errors.
>
>John
>
>PS: I haven't been contibuting too much recently, mainly for the
>Christmas rush to get cameras back AND trying to clean up my website
>which suffered  scrambling on the last upload.
>
>Andras Iklody-Szabo wrote:
>>
>> >Andras Iklody-Szabo asked
>> >>
>> >>can anybody give me a hint, where the manual shutter speeds can be
>>adjusted
>> >>in a 35 RC? They are nearly 1 stop off and I would like to use slide film.
>> >
>> >
>> >There are only manual shutter speeds on the 35RC. If they are uniformly out
>> >(presumably slow) it would be easier to double the ISO/ASA rating of the
>> >film to compensate.
>> >
>> >Regards,
>> >Keith
>>
>> Thanks, Keith, of course, you are right! It's the aperture that's set
>> automatically, when in AUTO.
>>
>> That still leaves my question unanswered: where can I access some kind of
>> an adjustment for the speeds. I don't want to dismantle the camera
>> unnecessarily.
>> The ASA adjustment is not convenient, because the speeds are not uniformly
>> off. But the 2 most important speeds, 1/60 and 1/125 are close to 1 stop
>> too slow.
>>
>> Andras Iklody-Szabo
>> Caracas/Venezuela
>>
>>
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