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"Fiction is self-perpetuating." I've found really interesting ways that this manifests itself. I'm a film-camera lover. Well, my Fuji GW690 mk3 is fantastic,
by jchrome 12y ago
"Fiction is self-perpetuating."
I've found really interesting ways that this manifests itself.
I'm a film-camera lover. Well, my Fuji GW690 mk3 is fantastic, except that when I trip the shutter, there's an awful "ping" sound that it makes. I read forum after forum and watched youtube videos that all said the same thing: "Remove the counter assembly and it will remove the ping."
Getting a hair up my derrier, I decided to do this and found, after much work, that the ping sound was in the shutter assembly and could not be mitigated.
Check the work here.
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=144759 http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1447...
Anyway, just one internet myth amongst millions I'm sure. I was just so surprised that people would parrot other peoples lies like that. If that's the case with something so minor, I can only imagine the amount of misinformation out there (where people have something to gain).
- userbinator 12y agoThanks for providing an actual example of this. As someone whose hobbies include fixing and improving things, that sounds like a spring that's ringing. I think you could dampen it if you could identify the exact one and put some sound-absorbing material on it, or if you find the end-stop some part is hitting sharply on, put something soft on that. As another datapoint, service manuals for various equipment (including cameras) are another difficult thing to find, as Google really thinks you want the usual brief and increasingly useless instruction manual even if you very explicitly type "service manual" in your query.