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Stumbled on a stat about shutter curtain light leaks
Was reading through an old repair manual from 1987 and found out that over 60% of light leaks in cloth shutters come from pinholes smaller than a grain of sand. I always blamed the seals first. Has anyone else found that tacking the curtains first saves time?
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hannah_perry23d ago
60% pinholes smaller than a grain of sand, and here I am blaming the felt strip like it personally offended my camera. Guess I should start holding a magnifying glass to the curtain before I go sacrificing light seals to the camera gods. Tack the curtain first, save an hour of seal scraping, then find the pinhole with a flashlight like a treasure hunt. Or just keep blaming the foam forever and call it a day.
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milaw1423d ago
Why not just replace the whole curtain and be done with it? If 60% of pinholes are that tiny, you're probably missing a few no matter how hard you look with a flashlight. Scraping old foam is annoying but at least you know it's fixed instead of playing hide and seek with sand-sized holes.
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felix_black22d ago
That "treasure hunt with a flashlight" part is too real lol. My buddy spent three hours replacing seals on his F2 only to still have leaks, and the pinhole was literally right in the middle of the curtain like a tiny pinhole camera joke. He still refuses to talk about it.
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