Pieter12
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Pinholes rule!
There’s always some challenge. The old scope had fritzed on me decades ago so I put it away until now. On a rheostat I found it was fine at 80 volts line power. Mouser came through with some high voltage capacitors and the first one worked, got it on the line now.
Although this reveals shutter time, it doesn’t measure curtain speed.
I’ll need a two sensor arrangement to get that info. View attachment 312889
Love the Kenwood scope, beautiful piece of equipment.
Doing a proper "CLA" on a SLR camera can easily take more than 5 hours of almost-non-stop, no-interruptions-allowed work. Or days. This will involve stripping the camera completely, cleaning (which might involve ultrasonic cleaning or removing all kinds of stubborn gunk), relubing, checking shutter curtain times and readjusting tension, renewing curtain brakes if there are bounce problems, checking flange-to-rail length and paralellism, checking or readjusting focusing screen for correct focus, same for mirror angle, readjusting metering for the whole range (dark, middle, bright EVs), Then assembling everything again, some parts have specific positions and tolerances... If the camera has an AE circuit you also nee sure it's exposing correctly, no matter what the meter reads. And then there's the light seals topic, which isn't trivial on some machines. I'm sure i'm leaving things out right now.
Just multiply time for a reasonable hourly rate and you'll have an idea of how to charge.
But then you know that you have a good camera. Running out and buying another camera instead results in a camera of unknown condition and back as square one with an extra camera.
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