Re: [photo-3d] Re: Shutter on Wollensak 10?

[Peter Davis <pd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:40 PM 02/16/2001, you wrote:
>--- In photo-3d@xxxx, Peter Davis <pd@xxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I just received a beautiful Wollensak 10.  It looks practically
>new, and it
> > a gorgeous cameras.  The only problem is ...
> >
> > the shutter doesn't work.  I can wind the advance knob until it
>stops, cock
> > the shutter,
>
>The shutter should cock on the film wind, if it doesn't the linkage
>is in the bottom of the camera.

Perhaps it does.  There is a lever at the bottom in about the same place as 
the Realist's shutter cocking lever.  Is that for double exposures?


> >and press the shutter button.  The frees the advance knob to
> > wind again, but the actual blade don't appear to open.  Am I
>missing
> > something?  Is there some trick?  I've tried a few different
>speeds, like
> > 1/2, B and T.  Something else I should know?
>
>It does sound like the shutter doesn't work.  Pushing the shutter
>release does two things; it starts the shutter timer and releases the
>winding, each at a different level of the push and the order depends
>on who adjusted it last.  If you are pushing it all the way down the
>shutter should fire.  I think it is jammed.

I'm pushing it as far down as I can.  I also tried a cable release, which 
can really push.  I hear a faint sort of clicking sound, but the shutter 
leaves themselves don't move.


> > Also, I'm curious about the lenses.  The frontmost ring on each
>lens barrel
> > unscrews.  However, on the left lens, it's just a metal ring that
>comes
> > off.  On the right, the whole lens unscrews and comes out.  Was
>this some
> > mechanism for adjusting for focus differences between the lenses?
>I don't
> > get it.
>
>Not a differental focus adjustment..  The outer ring is there to hold
>series V filters in.  You could take them off and not affect the
>camera operation.  On the right you are taking the lens apart.  On
>the right side, hold the second ring and unscrew the outer ring, then
>tighten the second ring good and put the outer one back on, not as
>tight.

Yup.  I guess I just had the ring on too tight.  I thought it was a little 
weird.


> >
> > Any other good Wollensak tips or pointers?
>
>They are great cameras, I hope you get yours working.  Jess Powell is
>suposed to be good at fixing them.  (530) 666-5334

Thanks.  I'll give him a try.

-pd


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