richard_cook2

Web.mit.edu/dennis/www/canon/fd-lens-info.html

 

This site has a table with all the lens details I think.

Have you put a film through the camera yet?

I have one EF that eats batteries and another one that doesn't.

Some EF's eat batteries and some don't.

Sadly you have one that does.

<p>On the fifth picture you can compare the finish on the aperture ring with the finish on the breech locking ring. The finish below the orange dot on the locking ring looks hand painted compared with the finish on the aperture ring. Also the paint on the locking ring looks as if it is wearing through to the chrome in places on the ridges.</p>

<p>According to Wikipedia:<br>

NiMH batteries normally operate at 1.2 V per cell, somewhat lower than conventional 1.5 V cells.<br>

I suspect that the speedlites need a higher voltage to charge up successfully.</p>

<p>I too have one of these lenses with a broken lens mount. I wonder how many of them it would take to make it worthwhile for someone to remanufacture replacement lens mounts for them.</p>

<p>On the other hand they are so cheap that it is worth using this one to practice on in case you ever have to perform the same operation on a more expensive Fd lens.</p>

<p>The EF service manual has the circuit diagrams in it. <br>

It is downloadable from several sites on the net including this one: <a href="http://camera-care.com/repair_manuals.htm">http://cameracare.com/repair_manuals.htm</a></p>

<p>I have two EFs.<br>

In August 2009 I fitted two new silver oxide batteries to each of them.<br>

After six months they had only had taken a couple of films each and were switched off when not in use. However while the batteries in one of them were OK (and are still OK) the batteries in the other were not working. When I checked the non-working batteries one was low but the other was OK.<br>

Given that there are two or three different EF circuits, does one use up batteries faster than the other and if so does it use up one battery rather than the other or is there something wrong with one of my EFs?</p>

<p>I would get an AE-1 because they are cheap and plentiful and use a readily available battery and then use it in manual mode.</p>

<p>I would be more impressed if I saw pictures of the same subject taken with both lenses than by a discussion of what people 'think' is the best one. This would of course limit the discussion to people who actually own both lenses. (And rule me and most other people out!)</p>

<p>This is a free download of a repair manual:<br>

<a href="http://www.baytan.org/prak/pdf/serv/AE-1serv-rep.pdf">http://www.baytan.org/prak/pdf/serv/AE-1serv-rep.pdf</a></p>

<p>The Tamron SP 90mm F/2.5 uses 49mm filters and can be fitted to the F1 with a suitable adaptor. <br>

There are more details here: <a href="http://www.adaptall-2.com/lenses/52B.html">http://www.adaptall-2.com/lenses/52B.html</a><br>

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<p>No idea what it would cost but if you invested the money on a plumbing course then you could save money fixing your own heater AND make lots more money changing heaters for other people AND then spend all this extra money you would have coming on all the lenses that you wanted. There is probably a catch to this but I am not sure what it is.</p>

<p>In the UK most of them advertise in Amateur Photographer. They include:<br />Camtech, Mifsuds, ffordes, nicholascamera, collectablecameras,<br>

Prices tend to be considerably higher than ebay.</p>

<p>As a quick fix to make them useable and avoid getting bits of foam all over the lenses or having to throw them out I scrape out the disintegrating foam from the ends and replace it with several layers of bubblewrap cut to shape.</p>

<p>Ever since this thread started I have been looking on eBay here in the UK to see what one of these would make. Recently one has just sold for 76 UK pounds which seems rather a lot. The two main bidders had only bought one item each before however.<br>

<a href="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270569557397">http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270569557397</a></p>

<p>Maybe our attitude to cameras is like Nigel Tufnel 's attitude to guitars: <a href="

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<p>We are often being recommended to send cameras to a camera repairman to have them repaired or CLA'd. The camera repair men mostly seem to have learned their trade decades ago by going on special courses, either of a general type or ones that were specific to a particular type of camera and were run by the manufacturer soon after the camera was released.</p>

<p>If someone wanted to become a film camera repair man today how would they learn their trade?</p>

<p>There does not seem to be any way open to them other than by teaching themselves and asking questions when they get stuck.</p>

<p>If nobody learns how to repair film cameras themselves what will happen when the current generation of camera repair men lose their eyesight or die off?</p>

<p>A paragraph is devoted to shutter speed adjustment of the Canon FTb on page 72 of Tomosy's Camera Maintenance and Repair Book 1. He says:<br>

'Shutter adjustment is down at the bottom in the usual position. You need a forked screwdriver to turn the ratchet wheels. When oiling the shutter, the curtain shafts and the timing gears are the ones needing the oil most desperately. The FTb has an extra master shaft running from top to bottom. Oil these three shafts in their brass bushings, both top and bottom (six bushings).'<br>

In his picture, which is of the entire bottom of the camera, his screwdriver appears to be pointing to the wheel that the upper arrow is pointing to in your first picture.<br>

The curtain shaft and master shaft are labelled on the other side of the bottom of the camera.</p>

<p>Try asking your question on the Maintenance and Repair section of the Classic Camera Repair forum<br>

<a href="http://www.kyphoto.com/cgi-bin/forum/discus.cgi">http://www.kyphoto.com/cgi-bin/forum/discus.cgi</a><br>

They are more likely to be able to answer your question.</p>

<p>Instructions to fix the canon squeal can be found here:<br>

<a href="http://rick_oleson.tripod.com/index-157.html">http://rick_oleson.tripod.com/index-157.html</a><br>

It sounds as if you may have got oil on the gap associated with one if the electromagnets in the bottom of the camera. Attempting to clean it all off again may help.</p>

 

<p>I have several Tamron lenses with Canon FD adaptors and also a third-party teleconverter which I use with Canon FD lenses. I often find that it is sometimes quite a struggle to get them to fit correctly which involves rotating both the lens/converter and the locking ring before the lens/converter in mounted tightly to the camera body. Once they have been fitted correctly however I do not have any problem with their performance.</p>

<p>It says: <strong>You can order leather or leatherette kits for the cameras listed below. </strong><br>

I assume that the ones that you can click on are the ones that they have pictures of.</p>

<p>Are you sure that Cameraleather cannot supply anything?<br>

The Canon A-1 is on their list of supported cameras: <a href="http://www.cameraleather.com/others/">http://www.cameraleather.com/others/</a></p>

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