Info on Widelux cameras

[ksmattfish]

This message is mostly for Orie, since she's the only other person I know with a Widelux , but if anyone else has one, or gets one in the future here's something I learned recently...

Don't change the shutter speed before the camera is cocked/wound. If you do this it will eventually damage the camera. You can change it all you want once it's wound and ready to go.

 

[terri35 6]

Here's hoping you didn't come across this discovery because YOURS has been damaged due to this mechanical idiosyncrasy.

 

[ksmattfish]

Well, mine did break down a while back, and this may have had something to do with it but, knock on wood, so far it's been working fine since the repair.