Shutter exersizing

Acquired a nice Olympus EE or Auto Eye(vintage 1960) that had a dead selenium cell but still had manual settings. The shutter was Seiko not Seiko SV. The shutter speeds were not working well at the slow speeds so one evening while watching 2hr documentary Vietnam, I constantly went through all the speeds firing over and over and slowly the camera began to respond to the point everything worked except B. The next night I did same routine and lo and behold the B setting responded as well. I must have fired the shutter over 300 times. I'm glad I didn't have to tear the shutter apart to clean. Being patient won out.

The Hasselblad repairman at Samys Camera on Fairfax recommends firing all lenses every three months at several speeds to avoid the mechanisms getting gummed up. I put quarterly reminders on my computer calendar to exercise all the Hasselblad and LF lenses.

Sirius Glass said:

The Hasselblad repairman at Samys Camera on Fairfax recommends firing all lenses every three months at several speeds to avoid the mechanisms getting gummed up. I put quarterly reminders on my computer calendar to exercise all the Hasselblad and LF lenses.

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I do the same but, slowly, I'm spending more time on maintenance than photographing

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I was always told that Leaf shutters need regular exercise, all but 2 of my cameras are leaf shutters and in the evening when watching the tele I tend to fire a shutter or 2 on all speeds and that seems to keep them going fine, a some of my cameras had slow/sticky slow speeds when I got them and dry firing them has often got the slow speeds working fine