old lenses w/o flash sync

[Colin Graham]

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

 

[Jim Jones]

A microswitch actuated by the cocking lever might work.

 

[David A. Goldfarb]

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.

 

[Colin Graham]

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.

 

[bennoj]

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.

 

[David A. Goldfarb]

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

 

[Sjixxxy]

I remedied the problem of my synch-less shutter by spending $46 on a new on eBay that had the synch.