Nikon F 2 shutter cocked too long.

[BrianShaw]

No Huss, with most S.LRs you can remove the winder or motor drive then fire the shutter, before you put the camera away which is what I do with my Canon F D cameras.

With my Nikon cameras I just turn the motor drive off and manually release the shutter. No need to remove the motor. Then either manually cock or turn the motor and fire a blank frame before loading film. MD-4 and MD-11/12

 

[reddesert]

IMO, the most important point is to use the camera and not worry about chimeras and internet here-be-dragons stories. Sover Wong knows far more about F2's than I do, but I also imagine he gets in cameras in all conditions, anywhere from heavily used but maintained, to those have sat cocked and forgotten in a bag in a closet for twenty years.

Spring steel has a high yield strength so that it has a large elastic region - when you stretch it within the elastic deformation regime, it returns to shape. That's why it is a spring. It only takes a set if you stretch or bend it into the regime of plastic deformation. Materials aren't perfect, so it is possible that there are springs in cameras that will take a set if you leave them for a really long time. But fundamentally you are more likely to miss a shot by missing focus or getting your finger in front of the lens or any number of other things, than by taking a picture with a camera that was left wound for a week or even a month.

 

[Nikon 2]

IMO, the most important point is to use the camera and not worry about chimeras and internet here-be-dragons stories. Sover Wong knows far more about F2's than I do, but I also imagine he gets in cameras in all conditions, anywhere from heavily used but maintained, to those have sat cocked and forgotten in a bag in a closet for twenty years.

Spring steel has a high yield strength so that it has a large elastic region - when you stretch it within the elastic deformation regime, it returns to shape. That's why it is a spring. It only takes a set if you stretch or bend it into the regime of plastic deformation. Materials aren't perfect, so it is possible that there are springs in cameras that will take a set if you leave them for a really long time. But fundamentally you are more likely to miss a shot by missing focus or getting your finger in front of the lens or any number of other things, than by taking a picture with a camera that was left wound for a week or even a month.

An enjoyable comment…!

 

[Sirius Glass]

So Sover Wong want people to go around half cocked.

 

[Nikon 2]

So Sover Wong want people to go around half cocked.

 

[ericB&W]

For safe i leave all mechanical shutter camera uncocked ,
i would know something about Rollei 35 T, it must have the collapsible
lens extended to stay uncocked , so i leave it in that position when unused even if
seems quite innatural not retract the lens inside, i don't know..., i wasn't able to find
any suggestion about .

 

[Nikon 2]

I got my results from David at the Process One Lab. Two or three seemed over exposed according to David, and it could be the ones a I purposely shot at 500 speed.
He said it probably is the light meter that was fooled…!

 

[BrianShaw]

David may mean that the meter was fooled by how it was used, not so much by accuracy of either the meter or shutter. If you want a second option opinion, post the negs…there will be lots of second opinions offered, I’m sure.

 

[Nikon 2]

David may mean that the meter was fooled by how it was used, not so much by accuracy of either the meter or shutter. If you want a second option opinion, post the negs…there will be lots of second opinions offered, I’m sure.

David may mean that the meter was fooled by how it was used, not so much by accuracy of either the meter or shutter. If you want a second option opinion, post the negs…there will be lots of second opinions offered, I’m sure.

As soon as I get them I will post the negatives…!