So I bought a box containing an NC1000 and a bunch of other stuff, mainly because I wanted an m42 lens and a handle flash that were in it. As for the camera, it's a funny takeoff on the OM series aesthetic. I kinda like it.
I had opened the battery case and seen that batteries had leaked inside, so I wrote off the camera completely. But when I got it home I decided to clean it out and put in some very fresh silver oxide batteries that had only been in my Nikon F2 for about a month, in which time I had used the camera maybe once. They were quite fresh at any rate. I was surprised to see that the battery check showed brightly when I pressed the button.
An interesting thing happens when i fire the shutter though... if the camera is not in comparative darkness, the camera stops down the lens to the correct aperture as indicated by the meter (or whatever aperture the lens is set to if it's not in the automatic position), but the shutter fires mechanically only (i.e., with no delay). This is obviously most noticeable at slow speeds where the delay would be audible.
When the camera is pointed somewhere dim, the shutter will fire correctly about 60% of the time. Total darkness doesn't seem to improve matters.
This indicates that there's a bad connection somewhere, probably caused by the acid leak, and the camera isn't drawing enough power to both meter a high light level, and run the electromagnets that delay the second curtain--at least, that's my guess. When the meter is drawing less, sometimes the magnets are strong enough and sometimes they aren't, I guess.
I figure this might be a fun project since I have basically no money in the camera and no real investment in it. Does anyone know enough about this to know where I should look for a bad connection?
I had opened the battery case and seen that batteries had leaked inside, so I wrote off the camera completely. But when I got it home I decided to clean it out and put in some very fresh silver oxide batteries that had only been in my Nikon F2 for about a month, in which time I had used the camera maybe once. They were quite fresh at any rate. I was surprised to see that the battery check showed brightly when I pressed the button.
An interesting thing happens when i fire the shutter though... if the camera is not in comparative darkness, the camera stops down the lens to the correct aperture as indicated by the meter (or whatever aperture the lens is set to if it's not in the automatic position), but the shutter fires mechanically only (i.e., with no delay). This is obviously most noticeable at slow speeds where the delay would be audible.
When the camera is pointed somewhere dim, the shutter will fire correctly about 60% of the time. Total darkness doesn't seem to improve matters.
This indicates that there's a bad connection somewhere, probably caused by the acid leak, and the camera isn't drawing enough power to both meter a high light level, and run the electromagnets that delay the second curtain--at least, that's my guess. When the meter is drawing less, sometimes the magnets are strong enough and sometimes they aren't, I guess.
I figure this might be a fun project since I have basically no money in the camera and no real investment in it. Does anyone know enough about this to know where I should look for a bad connection?