![]() When pushed a bit harder it flies to the top of the range. With the camera set to f/22 & shutter B and a new battery I push the button but the needle fiies down, as if the battery was weak or bad. Working great now except one little item – the battery check. I did a little cleaning with isopropal alcohol and carefully lubed it with extrafine sewing machine oil. The mechinism was stuck for no reason I could observe, so I loosened the two pivot screws and it fired immediately. Well, I got that black Petri color 35 with the jammed shutter and thanks to you and your pictures I had it repaired in fifteen minutes. You can easily fail, but when you did good you feel more accomplished.ĭo you want to drive a car that response to what you want it to do, or you want one with traction control and parking sensors (because apparently we are not good enough on our own?) or the extreme – autopilot.īy the way, I actually have an F4, but i barely use it, I rather use my Nikkormat. ![]() – It’s more stripped down, it’s a relationship between you, aperture, shutter speed, ISO, and focus. – Old cameras, a lot of them are over engineered. – Auto focus can be good at stuff like weddings, but for things that needs precision focus, nothing is better than manual focus, and if you mess that up you can’t blame anyone else, but keep practicing. – I find the manual film advance is a lot less annoying then the motor advance, some of them sounds loud, funny, or annoying. – No meter forces you to either, bring a meter, or learn how to eye ball it, and I eyeball with great success most of the time. – Mechanical cameras are usually a lot more reliable in a lot of different situation, and you never afraid it’s going to run out of battery in the middle of a job. ![]() Let’s talk about a complete manual camera, even one without a meter. ![]() However you can also look at it as doing YOUR job for you (which is not necessarily what you want, is what your camera picked for you). Manual cameras benefits the user tremendously.Ī lot of the newer “auto-everything” cameras are designed that so you can do your job easier (it’s supposed to, but if you don’t know what this and that does it can make it worst). ![]()
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