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

Thanks for the advice you guys. I'd better check out the radio trigger.

 

John

I had an EF some years ago. Very nice camera. The only thing I found less than ideal was the exposure lock button. My way of holding a camera is with my left hand under the lens, operating the focusing ring. This grip makes it difficult to press the exposure lock button and as that button has to be held depressed, i.e. it doesn't lock, the whole thing didn't work. ... Unless my EF was faulty of course.

Still a nice camera though. I recently got an F-1 just to satiate my desire for a mechanical metal camera - EOS is good but the F-1 is a different experience.

Hi, I am just getting together a basic setup to try a bit of nature flash photography. I plan to use a couple of

older (i.e. cheap) flash guns triggered by slaves.

The config. would be a radio trigger on the camera firing one of the flashes, and the other one (or two) being

fired by optical slaves.

There is a known issue with use of older flashes on digital cameras, and the high trigger voltage damaging the

cameras electronics. This is why, as well as for flexibilitiy of positioning, I am using the radio trigger.

 

While thinking about this it just occurred to me to wonder if slaves/triggers are affected, i.e. damaged, by high

trigger voltages in older flashes. I've never seen anything mentioned about this. I guess slaves are relatively

simple devices compared to a digital camera, but does that mean they are more robust?

 

What do you think?