CliveC
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Got a Canon T60 out of curiosity's sake and it seems like I may have gotten a dud.
New silver oxide batteries in, the meter responds, advance lever works, but when the shutter button is clicked, there's a small twang sound (which seems like the aperture pin), but the mirror does not flip, nor does the shutter move.
I took off the bottom plate and there's no obvious problems that I could see.
Any advice? I believe I heard once that the T60 is similar to the Olympus OM2000 and the Nikon FM10 in that they're all built by Cosina around the same time.
New silver oxide batteries in, the meter responds, advance lever works, but when the shutter button is clicked, there's a small twang sound (which seems like the aperture pin), but the mirror does not flip, nor does the shutter move.
I took off the bottom plate and there's no obvious problems that I could see.
Any advice? I believe I heard once that the T60 is similar to the Olympus OM2000 and the Nikon FM10 in that they're all built by Cosina around the same time.
CliveC
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Well, I did some surgery on my T60 and I managed to fix the issue. In opening the base and removing a panel, I noticed that there was what looked like a magnet and something that looked like it should touch it. Pushed it towards the magnet, fired the shutter, presto!
There's a little arm that pushes the mechanism to contact the magnet. For some reason, this arm was pushing about 0.5mm short from where it needed to be.
Pushed in a small screw driver and bent the arm just a touch and now the camera works fine.
I'm kinda proud of myself. I don't do many repairs and have had a bad track record in general, especially with small fiddly bits.
There's a little arm that pushes the mechanism to contact the magnet. For some reason, this arm was pushing about 0.5mm short from where it needed to be.
Pushed in a small screw driver and bent the arm just a touch and now the camera works fine.
I'm kinda proud of myself. I don't do many repairs and have had a bad track record in general, especially with small fiddly bits.
randolph45
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Nice going
Did you get the auto focus lens that came with that body ?
Did you get the auto focus lens that came with that body ?
CliveC
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Nice going
Did you get the auto focus lens that came with that body ?
It was offered? Nope, only got the 50mm f/1.8. Got quite a few of those by now. Also came with a 70-200mm f/4.5 "macro" which I don't see myself using much.