Anybody Service the Canon T90?

[cuthbert]

It was called "the tank" not because of it's legendery durability but because it shared the designation T90 with a Russian tank http://www.military-today.com/tanks/t90.htm

Yes but the Canon T90 came out before the Russian T90.

 

[AgX]

It might refer to the soviet T-for-tank designation in general.


Anyway, I only learned about the "tank" designation from the internet. It may be a internet story that blew up a local term into a standard designation.

 

[benjiboy]

Oh, I know the battery is there -- I was being whimsical about it being a myth because I've read so few reports of anyone having to replace it!

Replacement Lithium battery to power the T90 display is a CR 1220 or BR 1225 https://www.amazon.com/Energizer-12...=UTF8&qid=1466119684&sr=1-2&keywords=cr+1220+, I have had my T90 for almost 25 years and the battery is still O.K. and Canon originally said it needed replacing every five years, if mine packs up I'll buy one from Amazon they're cheap enough, and have my camera tech replace it for me.

 

[Alan W]

At one time or another I have had,and used,all of canon's fd Cameras.The T90 is my favourite.I have bought 4 of them on ebay and 2 worked properly,2 didn't.The ones that didn't were sold by people who "couldn't"test them.The ones that did work I still use.If I have to let them sitting for more than 4 weeks I load batteries and shoot several frames and everything is good.It was,and still is,a great camera and best bought from someone that has enough know how to put batteries in it and fire the shutter.Combine it with the 300tl flash,any of the fine fd lenses and you will need nothing more to make first class images.A stand alone camera,in my opinion.

 

[michaelpowell]

Oh yes, the T90 has its fans. I was one of them. It's an all-electronic, multi-drive wunderkind and a CLA would be an involved and likely expensive undertaking (e.g. something costing much more than the net worth of the camera). One major servicing issue is that of replacing the lithium button-cell battery inside, failure of which often causes the EEEEE error message on the display. Long before now this battery would require replacing in the majority of T90 bodies, and is a service bench (not DIY) job. It involves a lot of disassembly of the top, access to and under circuit boards, unsoldering, replacement and resoldering and recalibration of electronics (especially if the battery has been dead for years). I'd like very much to rekindle my 1980s, 3-year association with the T90, but an awareness of reliability issues and faults that point to the battery issue pretty much turn me off. Your first check of a used T90 would be the camera's routine operation (checking for noise, jamming mirror and/or shutter, winding irregularities) and the display — the oft-lamented EEEEE cryptically points to a fault "somewhere" (either passive or critical/fatal), and that could be incorrect film loading or rewinding, a shutter problem, the aforementioned battery service requirement, any one or more of the motors... who is to know? There are quite a few T90 bodies on auction sites. I think your best bet would be to buy one that has been fully serviced and tested, but by eye or ear (not "shutter sounds OK, shutter speeds seem good..."), but the complete technical internal/external servicing, testing and calibration.

... a fault "somewhere" - BINGO! evertbody said I had a stickey shuuter. Opened up the camera... the shutter looked like new. the camera fires like a machine gun... until I put the film back in. EEEE. it appears the film fed properly, but now I'm not sure what is happening.