How to work a compound shutter

[Sylvester Graham]

If you're not sure you have the skills, you likely don't have the skills. Sorry to be a @#!*% , but that's about the way it is. They are extremely fragile.

Um, yeah, that's why I said I don't have the skills. And that's also why first thing I did when I got this off ebay was send it to John at Focal Point. It's attached to a Xenar 300mm. He originally was just going to fix the severe separation on the lens, but said he'd fix the shutter too. Did he not know what he was doing? Hopefully it isn't totally ruined.

[E. von Hoegh]

So the shutter has been serviced, and it's still not right?

I've never heard anything bad re. Focal Point, quite the contrary.


Are you sure the M-B-Z selector is correctly positioned? it can be fiddly until you get used to it.
It was the aperture blades of the earlier shutters I warned about, not the shutter blades which are of steel.