john_fryatt1

Thanks all for the advice. I've fired the shutter several hundred times now with no improvement, so it looks like it's stuck on firing at one speed. So, as I have a couple of other old cameras that are fully functional, this one will be a shelf ornament for the time being.... until I am willing to try dismantling it. :-{

Thanks Bill, but the Miranda F pre-dates electronics and is purely mechanical.

Hi all, I recently acquired an old Miranda camera, a model F. It's a nice old thing, pretty sturdy and well made and so on. However, it has a fault, which is that what ever speed you set on the dial it always fires at the same speed. It's range is 1 -1/500 and I suspect it is always firing at 1/500, certainly one of the faster speeds anyway. It's not going to be cost-effective to get it repaired professionally (even if that's possible) so I wonder if there's anything (reasonably straightforward) that I can do to rectify this fault. Thanks for any advice. John