old lenses w/o flash sync

Colin Graham

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What's everyone doing for sync-less shutters? Any good workarounds other than bulb and manual firing? Thanks.
 

David A. Goldfarb

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It isn't difficult for a repair technician to add sync to an older shutter.

I have a front mounted leaf shutter, similar to a Luc shutter, that I use for my large portrait lenses (some shutterless, some with Studio shutters), and I had Frank Marshman add sync to it. I think it cost around $60-80 for the conversion including a CLA on the shutter a few years ago.
 
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Colin Graham

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Thanks a bunch, great suggestions. A microswitch...sounds very cool.

David, that seems like a bargain. Is Marshman still camerawiz at msn dot com? I'd heard that Grimes and others weren't doing this work anymore. Thanks.
 

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My work may be different than yours, but in general I've never had much problem with opening the shutter on B or T and firing the flash manually then closing the shutter.
 

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Marshman should still be at that address or call 1-800-471-8133.
 
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