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Debate: Should you bother cleaning or just replace a jammed shutter on an old Spotmatic?
I was over at a buddy's shop in Portland last week and we got into it about this. He says it's always worth cleaning a stuck shutter because you learn the mechanism and save the original parts. But I've had two Spotmatics where I spent hours cleaning only for the curtains to still snag or the speeds to be way off. Now I'm leaning toward just swapping in a whole used shutter assembly for $40 if I can find one. What do you all do when you run into a jammed shutter on these old cameras?
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daniel5521mo ago
Ngl I kind of disagree with your buddy. I've cleaned three Spotmatic shutters and two of them still had issues after. At that point you're just burning time you could spend shooting.
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