dave lackey
Veteran
Ugh...
Lately I have been too ill to do much of anything including simply walking. Exhaustion has caught up with me yet again and nausea from constant dizziness does not allow for much photography even though I find the bokeh interesting... It just moves too much for me.
I did try to focus in on a single task but failed.
My F2 had a jumpy meter head so in the drawer it went when I received a head from an F2a that worked fine. But the coupling for the F2a shutter dial was always been loose. I had to squeeze down to keep the coupled dial engaged to turn it.
I tried yesterday to fix it by loosening the screw on each head and swapping the coupling. It worked! But now the shutter speed does not change in the viewfinder. It is stuck on 30. If bumped I can get to show 15 but spinning the knob yields no movement inside the viewfinder.
Does anyone know how to fix one of these things?
Lately I have been too ill to do much of anything including simply walking. Exhaustion has caught up with me yet again and nausea from constant dizziness does not allow for much photography even though I find the bokeh interesting... It just moves too much for me.
I did try to focus in on a single task but failed.
My F2 had a jumpy meter head so in the drawer it went when I received a head from an F2a that worked fine. But the coupling for the F2a shutter dial was always been loose. I had to squeeze down to keep the coupled dial engaged to turn it.
I tried yesterday to fix it by loosening the screw on each head and swapping the coupling. It worked! But now the shutter speed does not change in the viewfinder. It is stuck on 30. If bumped I can get to show 15 but spinning the knob yields no movement inside the viewfinder.
Does anyone know how to fix one of these things?
Sid836
Well-known
The shutter speed selection gets transferred to the viewfinder by a string from the shutter speed selection knob to a large rotating ring inside the head. Apparently that piece of string came off and now there is no link between the shutter speed selector and the head.
dave lackey
Veteran
Wow, that would certainly do it, wouldn't it?!
Thank you for the quick response!
Thank you for the quick response!