Hello,
My father recently dug-out his old Nikon F3 camera.
After replacing the batteries, all seems to work fine except it is not possible to get exposure values above 1/80 second. Either in manual or auto mode.
The LCD will only diplay values of “80” and below.
Any idea of what I should check ?
Best regards,
Salut, Jean-Luc!
I may be totally wrong, but did you
obtain the original battery type, according
to the manual?
Have fun!
Claes in Lund, Sweden
It’s probably because flash sync doesn’t work for speeds faster than 1/80. Is there a flash currently attached or is there a way to turn off flash?
Evidently a known problem:
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OK, seems I have some problems understanding the behaviour of the editor.
No matter. I am going to reply here to everyone that took the time to help me.
@ Claes first : yes, I did use the exact replacement cells.
@ Paolo : This is an early 70’s camera with very few electronics and no built-in flash.
@ Claes again : wow ! I must really be unhappy with search ! none of the many pages I browsed for a couple of days did led to something at least approaching this. Only unconsistent blah-blah. Thanks !
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Went to my father’s house today and could see that the view counter was on 0 though I had seen him take at least three shots last time.
So, I rewinded it, inserted a new roll and, after pulling the lever a couple of times, the counter displayed 1 and the informations on LCD were correct again.
My father, the F3 and me say : thank-you very much !
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For anyone else reading this thread, the Nikon F3 - and several other cameras - set the shutter speed to 1/80th sec (or another faster speed depending on camera model) until frame 1 shows on the counter. It is absolutely normal and is intended to aid film loading if the camera is in auto mode with a lens cap on, when exposures would last very long times whilst completing film loading.
With the camera back open, shutter speed will stay at 1/80th as the counter is not active.
IF the speed remains at 1/80th when frame 1 is reached, that does indicate a fault.
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What a helpful comment. Thank you a lot; my Nikon F3 got the same issue. Now I know the reason why it stayed 1/80