Recent content by Grenversity

After cleaning all the magnets and eliminating that possibility, and after doing A LOT more research reading forums from the early 2000s, it seems like the issue is/was relatively common with the A-series and it could possibly be that the shutter bearings and rollers lubrication has dried up and...

Do you know what might fix the issue? The camera is really clean inside, there is no dirt, grime or corrosion on anything and the only issue I found was some dried up oil at the bottom of the plate. I bought a journal from learncamerarepair.com, but it's only 3 pages covering the AV-1 and there...

Oh, I didn't realise the image is reversed both axis onto the film. That makes more sense now, the issue is on the right side of the imagine, so the left side of the film when shooting. Here's a landscape, from Greenwich as well. Guess I need to find a way to CLA my camera. Thanks again for...

Arduino with the 3_1_3 software. I probably have like 4-5 readings for each speed. They are all constant in how bizarre they are; I could never get a reading for laser 2 at 1/1000. This is a photo which was probably taken at 1/500-1/1000. The dark side is on the right side of the film. My...

Just built the tester and I wanna say thank you for the detailed explanations. Here are my results for a Canon AV-1. As expected, there are a lot of inconsistencies at higher shutter speeds. Am I reading the results correctly by saying that the first curtain is slowing down/ second curtain is...

The problem The problem with uneven exposure is on the right side of the image. The curtains move right to left, so either the first curtain is zooming past the right side of the imagine (which I think it’s unlikely as that would mean lower exposures on the whole film since it starts on the...

Does anyone know how to fix shutter capping in a Canon AV-1. The problem is more apparent at higher speeds (the picture is probably taken at around 1/500s-1/1000s), but it's noticeable on almost all pictures even at lower speeds. I'm pretty certain the second curtain is faster than the first...