I've never even checked the speeds in an RC. You need a special shutter
tester or one set up just for leaf shutters. Also, while they were
serviced by Olympus as a new product, shutter speeds weren't adjusted
then either.
John
Andras Iklody-Szabo wrote:
>
> 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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