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Post by John Farrell on Dec 26, 2006 0:35:55 GMT -5
This afternoon a neighbour called to see me. He's president of the local photographic club, and knows I'm interested in older cameras. He had a camera case, with gear he bought new in the late 1970s, and used professionally. He passed it on to his daughter to use, later, and now, as he's gone digital, he has no use for it. When I opened the case, this is what I found:  A Canon F1, an AT-1, 28mm f2.8, 50mm f1.4 and 85mm f1.8 lenses, winder and waist level finder for the F1, and various odds and ends. He told me the F1 seemed to be jammed. When I opened the back, there was a piece of crumpled metal in the film gate, which turned out to be the second shutter curtain...... |
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Post by John Farrell on Dec 26, 2006 20:02:06 GMT -5
The F1 is the F1n model, date code "s" - 1978. It appears to be missing a small cover on the mirror box rewind side, and one of the buttons for releasing the prism is not there. The camera was cocked when I opened it, and a scrap of material was showing between the edge of the first curtain, and the film gate:  I pulled it out with tweezers. |
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k38
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Post by k38 on Dec 27, 2006 1:09:53 GMT -5
To Bad About the F1n's curtain. Essex may be able to help. The F1's curtains are Titanium Foil like the Nikon F1 and F2. I don't think they had as bad a tendency to wrinkle as the rangefinder cameras did. I have never been clear about the Canon P and Canon 7 (others?) whether they got wrinkled from normal use or from rough handling. The Nikon curtains (F, SP) do not seem to suffer as badly. The F1 is a very elegant camera, in some ways nicer and smoother than either the Nikon F or F2. I don't think it ever made much of an impression on the "pro" marketplace.
Dwight
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Post by John Farrell on Dec 27, 2006 2:06:41 GMT -5
The remaining curtain is unblemished, which makes me wonder whether this curtain was punctured by something. I have a service manual for this camera, and I have ordered some curtain material from Microtools, so I may have a go at replacing the curtain. I wonder how it would go with one titanium and one cloth curtain?
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bobm
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Post by bobm on Dec 29, 2006 18:02:50 GMT -5
Might be better to remove the remaining metal curtain and have an all-cloth shutter, what with the different material characteristics should you have one cloth and one metal curtain.
Just a thought...
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