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Re: [OM] Hairy OM4 & Colchester Cameras

Subject: Re: [OM] Hairy OM4 & Colchester Cameras
From: clintonr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 14:57:40 -0600
You're describing curtain string bounce.  The first curtain is slamming to a
stop (instead of being gradually braked to a stop), then bouncing back
slightly.  In some situations the curtain string then loops up into the focal
aperture casting a shadow on the image.

The first curtain brakes need to be tightened, and possibly the brake spring
bent tighter as well.  Not a do-it-yourself proposition, sorry to say -- if
the brake spring slips off the eccentric, a relatively easy repair suddenly
becomes quite difficult.

jason.gidden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> The thread appears semicircular, centre-top, is about an inch to an
> inch-and-a-half long and encroaches down about half an inch down from the
> top.
>


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