Camera Talk

(Just a heads up: I'm going to continue adding the repair work posts to this original thread, seems to make the most sense. If that's an issue, someone let me know.)

Have the shutter seemingly working okay.


This camera, according to a bunch of sites, has a double exposure prevention mechanism that requires film to be loaded. The Super Regent is like that as well, but can be tricked by manually advancing the gear in the camera back. I can't seem to do that with this. However, I think the little lever shown at the end of the video that is restricting the return motion of the shutter blade release is art of that double exposure mechanism. I'm going to close the shutter up and load some sacrificial film to see if I can figure it out.

I think you're missing a spring on the shutter blade return. Double-exposure prevention is likely lever controlled from inside the camera body, similar to what is used on the Zeiss Ikonta series. You'd have to take the top cover off to access it.

PF