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Fought a seized shutter release button for 3 days on a Nikon F2
Honestly it was just a tiny bit of corrosion on the contact spring inside the button assembly, took me 3 days of disassembling and cleaning before I spotted it. Anyone else run into something that simple that took forever to figure out?
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mia7003d ago
That tiny spring is such a common culprit. I had a similar frustration with an old Canon FTb where the film advance lever would lock up randomly. I spent two whole weekends taking the top plate off and on, cleaning every gear I could reach, even replaced a spring I thought was bent. Turned out it was just a single speck of gunk on the contact for the shutter lock mechanism. A tiny dab of alcohol and a toothpick fixed it in five seconds. It really makes you wonder how many hours of our lives get eaten up by a speck of dirt or a millimeter of corrosion.
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the_simon1d ago
Three weekends. That's what I sank into a Nikon FE last winter over a similar issue with the shutter release sticking intermittently. I had the whole bottom plate off (twice), reflowed some solder joints, even swapped out a capacitor I found on eBay for cheap. In the end it was a microscopic piece of dried foam from the light seals that had gotten wedged between two contacts. A damn toothpick and ninety seconds of my time. I feel your pain on a spiritual level, especially when you think about all the other projects you could have finished in that time. It's almost embarrassing how often the fix is that simple.
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elliot_gibson273d ago
Nah, I kinda enjoy that hunt (even if it drives me crazy at first).
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