You’re right, the F2 uses a horizontal run shutter…!
That's fine for a vertical running shutter but a F2 shutter runs horizontally (checked before I wrote this)
What kind of shutter? Cloth horizontal shutters need constant attention, whereas vertical metal shutters can just run until they need to be replaced.
Same as a vacuum tube TV from 1972, it needs constant tweaking for a good picture. Whereas a 2022 vintage OLED TV can just be replaced when it stops working.
The F2 has horizontal shutter curtain not vertical blades but its curtain is titanium not cloth.
Thanks for bringing up lubricant “quality“. Very interesting topic as lubricant technology has changed vastly, with immense improvements, over the years. Lubricant quality often needs to be considered jointly with the applicable era. That’s why following the lubrication schedule of old camera service manuals verbatim can be challenging. Many of the old/ traditional lubes no longer exist or have been improved or sometimes there is just a much better modern lubricant to use.
So true! I’ve been in the automotive service trade since the ‘70s and the improvement in lubricants over that period of time to me is astonishing. Just on the subject of motor oils back in the day a “modern” multi viscosity 20-50w oil was the bee’s knees for a high performance European engine. Now a 400hp twin turbo V8 is calling for 0-12w with a tripling of service life.
I hope you get your broken F2 fixed soon. They are excellent cameras when they work.
Hope you get your broken cameras fixed also…!
All my cameras work great. Including both my F2s.
thoughts and prayers that your F2 makes it through the surgery and comes back in decent shape.
We are pulling for you!
All my cameras work great. Including both my F2s.
thoughts and prayers that your F2 makes it through the surgery and comes back in decent shape.
We are pulling for you!
I hope you get your broken F2 fixed soon. They are excellent cameras when they work.
Leicas used inferior lubricants and shutters lacked ball bearings
All my cameras work great. Including both my F2s.
thoughts and prayers that your F2 makes it through the surgery and comes back in decent shape.
We are pulling for you!
All Leica cameras after the IIIC (and some IIIC) have ball bearing shutters.
Yeah, I have a 54 M4 an a 55 IIIf and both have ball bearing. The IIf red dials have the upgraded shutters, both are excellent, super quiet, and very close on exposure timing.
@Nikon 2 I know huss had at least one Sover Wong'd. Mine was done by sover wong, too. Sorry I don't have better recommendations, though mine works very well with pretty tight timing at all speeds 3 years after the CLA. Good luck getting yours this nice, you'll love it if it is.
Or just buy any working camera. Really, it doesn't matter what camera it is - they're all the same.
They are not all the same! Some cameras are black and some are chrome
Sover told me I`d have to wait until 2024 to send in the F2...!Use Dean. I’ve been to his shop a bunch of times and he knows his ish.
Both my F2s have been serviced by Sover Wong. But I wouldn’t use him again because I don’t want to wait forever, and I don’t want to pay what he now charges. I don’t have any complaints re. his work, it’d just when I used him he did not charge that much, nor was the wait that long!
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