Canon F1 New - Adjust Shutter tension

chriscrawfordphoto said:

That's not shutter tension problems. It needs to be disassembled and completely cleaned and relubricated. This is NOT a job for an untrained person. If you increase spring tension, you'll destroy the shutter.

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Arturo Carmona said:

As far as I know, this camera is one of the most complex ones of its decade and because of that ,

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Arturo Carmona said:

Hello!!

My Canon F1 new has started to show some issues when shooting at certain shutter speeds (Image attached). I have been reaching out and it seems that the shutter tension looses along the years. I am wondering if you could help me to find the way to fix it by myself.

Thank you guys!!

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flavio81 said:

As the owner of many F-1s i want to write.

The Canon F-1 is not a complex camera to service. You might be confusing it with the Canon NEW F-1 which indeed is a much more complex camera.

On youtube there's a tutorial on adjusting the shutter tension on the F-1.

However, the shutter problems should better first be solved with a thorough CLA instead of touching the shtuter curtain tension. Unless you have a really good shutter speed tester in which case you would already know what to do...

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flavio81 said:

Without you showing more negatives the problem can't be diagnosed. It looks like shutter bounce, which won't be solved by adjusting curtain tension btw...

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Arturo Carmona said:

Hi Flavio! Thanks for your reply, If you read the post you will notice that I am talking about Canon New F1 (also called F1 new) and not the F1. What is CLA?


I leave some more images.

Thank you all guys!

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chriscrawfordphoto said:

That's not shutter tension problems. It needs to be disassembled and completely cleaned and relubricated. This is NOT a job for an untrained person. If you increase spring tension, you'll destroy the shutter.

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