ian_gordon_bilson Posted October 27, 2002 Share Posted October 27, 2002 Conventional wisdom has it that shutters should be stored in relaxed (fired) state. I have a recently acquired 801s/8008s body, and there is no way I know of to store it with the shutter fired. Has anyone ever had problems with tired mainsprings giving them problems? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
todd peach seattle, washi Posted October 27, 2002 Share Posted October 27, 2002 FWIW, I was told by a normally reliable repair shop that the "store your shutters fired" advice is important for most older shutters (in my case, the one on my Nikon F3 and similar styles of shutter) but not valid anymore for the F4 and on style. I imagine your 8008s is in this latter class. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex_lofquist Posted October 29, 2002 Share Posted October 29, 2002 In the case of the 8008S you don't have any choice. I wouldn't worry about it anyway as the modern (vertical) focal plane shutters seem to be very reliable. Many years ago I used RF Leicas for my work. The shutter was wound when the film was advanced. I didn't want to miss a shot so I always had the shutters wound. It didn't seem to make any difference. Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave_cheney Posted December 2, 2002 Share Posted December 2, 2002 That advice generally relates to copal shutters found in older TLRs and large format lenses. Because of their small size the shutter tensioning spring is reletively weak so the general practice was the store them uncocked. Applying it to Mechanical MF bodies and rangefinders it is probably less important, most horizontal traveling shutters (leica type) have a very large, strong shutter tensioning spring and do not suffer from being cocked at all times, but exercising the shutter through all the shutter speeds regularly is recommended. Modern Copal Square shutters, found in almost every modern SLR are self cocking as part of the motor winder and a either partially or fully eletronically driven, there is nothing you can do to store them uncocked nor should you worry about it. Cheers Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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