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I think it has a leaf shutter. The most likely cause is oil on the shutter blades. There are many videos on Youtube that shows you how to clean the blades.

I have a Fujica Auto-M range finder camera. Everything works as it should. The only problem I have is the aperture is one stop off. In manual mode, when I set the aperture to F2.8, it actually stops down to F4. Also, F11 and F16 are the same. I hear this is a very complicated camera. Is...

Thank you. I have shelved this repair for the moment. I was thinking something similar. I will give this another go.

I have a Yashica 635 TLR. The aperture blades were stuck together and the setting dial unable to move. I was able to remove the shutter from the camera. I cleaned the shutter blades as well as the aperture blades. Now the problem. I finds the aperture blades impossible to be assembled. I...

For information, this issue was resolved. I ended up making a deal with the seller and kept the film back. I opened the film back and found the pin that gets pushed by the camera was not going far enough. I worked and oiled the pivot with a small of oil. That was all that was needed to...

It is the back. When the door is open, I can see the film transport working and winding as it should. It winds to the end the film. But when the door is closed, I can never get to the end of the film and the frame counter does not advance. I then removed the back and marked the test film...

I have a strange issue. I have a 135N film back to shoot 35mm film. When loaded with film and attached to the camera, it does not wind. The frame counter would move off "S" does not reach "1". Winding the film only cocks the shutter but the film does not move. Have anyone experienced this...

The instruction for Belini Duo Step. 1) Develop your films in Part A for a minimum of three minutes using GENTLE agitation for the first 20 seconds then five seconds each minute at the one minute mark and for five seconds prior to draining. Old school Diafine users advise that too much...

Thank you all. Only two rolls of films through the fixer. Fixer is still good. There is no stop bath stage using Diafine. It is interesting when I was using Rodinal, I did not see these deposit. I will just filter the fixer each time before I use it.

I recently started using Diafine film developer (Bellini Duo-Step). I like using it but I noticed dark sooty deposit in the fixer (Ilford Rapid fixer). It gets quite bad and I have to use coffee filter to get rid of the deposit. In the past I used Rodinal and never experienced this before...

I have a Mamiya Super 23 with 100mm f3.5 lens. It is fully working, however, the frame lines are not accurate. The actual photo actually captured is offset to the right of the frame lines. The frame lines does move with focus distance, not accurately reflect the frame lines. Are the frame...

Update, the rear element is tapered and does not come apart easily. What I did was t tap it on a soft surface and it dropped out. In case anyone wants to know this.

Thanks for this post. I have a Kowa Six and it is always useful to get info like this.

This is the back element of a Kowa 85mm F2.8 lens. There is s small amount of fungus on it. It does not look too bad but I can not get the lens element out. The retaining ring is already removed, the lens element will not come out. I used a suction tool without success. I don't want to use...

The light sensor is very small, only a few 3mm wide.