Internal Light Meter acting Squirrely...

[Carterofmars]

I have a Canonet QL17, and occasionally now the needle in the view finder drops down to F16 no mater the light strength being metered. With a little jostling or by playing with the aperture and speed rings a bit, the meter seems to start reacting normally.

Has anyone else experienced this?

I suspected the battery so I swapped a new Wein Cell... same problem occurring.

🙁

 

[FallisPhoto]

I have a Canonet QL17, and occasionally now the needle in the view finder drops down to F16 no mater the light strength being metered. With a little jostling or by playing with the aperture and speed rings a bit, the meter seems to start reacting normally.

Has anyone else experienced this?

I suspected the battery so I swapped a new Wein Cell... same problem occurring.

🙁

Sounds like you have a broken wire or a bad connection somewhere. Intermittent faults are a pain to fix. I'd suspect the wires that attach to the battery compartment. Sounds like what happens when someone stores the camera with a leaky battery and it corrodes the wires. Even if you clean out the compartment later, the corrosion is still in the wires and it keeps corroding.

 

[Carterofmars]

Sounds like you have a broken wire or a bad connection somewhere. Intermittent faults are a pain to fix. I'd suspect the wires that attach to the battery compartment. Sounds like what happens when someone stores the camera with a leaky battery and it corrodes the wires. Even if you clean out the compartment later, the corrosion is still in the wires and it keeps corroding.

Now the shutter won't release. I posted another string in this forum "Shutter won't snap".

Wonder if this could be related to the meter issue I was noticing?

Hummm.... 🙁

 

[Sonnar Brian]

It is probably not related to the meter. The shutter blades get some dried gunk on them and freeze up.

 

[FallisPhoto]

Now the shutter won't release. I posted another string in this forum "Shutter won't snap".

Wonder if this could be related to the meter issue I was noticing?

Hummm.... 🙁

It might, but it's doubtful. Is there any movement at all in the shutter?