Recent content by Bigpatty

Brilliant. What a ride. Now, do I go dig out those two T90's of mine that I know shout "Help"!

Update. Fixed ;-) I suspect that the power issue was just dirt on the half press contacts and/or the power sw under the advance lever. I removed the advance lever assembly and the speed dial as per the guides and cleaned the contacts. I also cleaned the power switch contacts. Not easy because...

Getting there. Work stopped for today,,,

Thank you for the insight. It seems logical and I had thought that the half press was the reason for all the issues (my notes on photo.net, same posting). You have given me all I need now to probably go straight to the issue. Brilliant. Will take me a little while to get to that switch, but I...

I’ve been helped a lot in past few days by Andreas Thaler,,, so big thank you to him and hope to continue to pick his brains ;-)) I'll try to describe issue as best I can. F3, dead, no display or shutter. Good battery but no power, nothing. Mechanicals all fine (although camera is missing the...

I love these threads. Really inspires me to get cracking on the 100 or so film cameras I have that need repairing ;-))) Found this thread while trying to get info on an F3 that does nothing that needs power,,, all mechanicals seem fine. Very useful to see the camera being dismantled. Thank you...