I tend to start squeezing the shutter button when I'm about to shot so I've noticed that when I back off the button the F triggers something that requires me to wind the shutter again.
Anyone else experience this?
Have the camera serviced, it needs it.
Yeah, figured it needs some CLA, but otherwise, it's a workhorse. Thanks.
Never had an F, but if this happens, couldn't you set the A/R ring to R and wind on, and not lose a frame?
I've been using Fs since about 1995, one of mine did the very same thing until I serviced it. You'd press the release partway, let it go, and the camera would neither trip the shutter nor do anything else but advance the film.
Definitely my favorite 35mm SLR, by a wide margin.Well worth a good CLA by a competent and conscientious technician, unless you're under 40 you'll likely never need to pay for another one.
When was the last time your F was serviced ?, no machine works correctly for fifty years without maintenance.
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I should have looked into this thread sooner, but didn't notice at first it was about F's. It is possible this is an adjustment problem, but I really think the issue you are having is more in the nature of the beast. I've had this happen occasionally since I started using F's in the early 70's. I particularly remember it at basketball games where I would have some pressure on the shutter release waiting for something to happen.
I don't work on these, but believe what is happening is that the mechanism that prevents double exposures is operating just before the actual release of the shutter, requiring you to advance before you can trip it. Maybe that can be adjusted better, but just paying more attention to not weighting the release button before you are ready to shoot has solved it for me 99.9 percent of the time.
How far and hard are you pressing down?
This morning I tried the half-press on my F and this is my observation: with light to moderate pressure, the release goes down a very little bit (maybe 2-3mm), then stops; increasing the pressure immediately trips the shutter. If I let up instead, I can then re-press and release the shutter - no need to wind on. So, to me, it behaves as one would expect.
It would seem that maybe something has gone out of adjustment on your F. I would like more responses to see how common this is. My F is from the late 1960's.
On mine it was a lubrication issue, when you partly pressed the release and then let off, something would not move back to the original position, "fooling" the rest of the camera advance mechanism into believing the shutter had tripped. A CLA cured it, and 18 or so years later it still behaves normally. The body was made in mid-1968; I'm sorry I can't remember more details.
That's exactly what it feels like.
When you remove the back, there's a plate attached to the main casting at the base, the sticky parts are under this plate IIRC. You could nurse the camera along by applying some Break-Free (tm) to the dry points, but too much is as bad as too little (you need a 6x-8x loupe, a watchmaker's oiler, and the service manual to accurately apply oil to a mechanism like this) and the camera really does merit a proper CLA.
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