----- Original Message ----- From: "John Celio" Subject: Test ME, and clean my pancake while you're at it
Some of you may remember the 40mm pancake lens I won on eBay along with an ME body. I have two issues I need a little help with:
First, after cleaning the ME and refoaming it (it looks really nice now, if I may say so myself), I realized I don't know how to test the shutter speeds, since it's an aperture-priority camera. With any other camera, I'd use my shop's shutter tester (uses a laser to record how long the shutter is open), but that won't work here. Aside from shooting a test roll while controlling the shutter speed via the aperture and maybe some ND filters, is there any way of testing the shutter speeds? I'd be willing to open up the camera, if there's some way of mechanically setting the shutter speed. See, I want to sell this body, but I wouldn't feel right selling it without knowing if it works properly.
It's an electronically timed shutter. You can be pretty sure that if it is working, it is timed more or less correctly as well.
Why won't your shutter tester work?
Second, I need to clean some dust out of the 40mm pancake. I know there are people here who have opened up old lenses to clean them, so I'm just wondering how complicated something like this can be. If necessary, I can get my shop's tech to help me out.
I hate opening up lenses, I alway let the goat that wants to explode out of them.
William Robb
