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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Kiwi_Roy on February 05, 2023, 11:00:26 PM
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I'm reading a book at the moment Eriv Newby's "The last Grain Race where he mentions working on his camera which he describes as a Compur
I quote from page 203, "I thought sadly and enviously of the technicians at Jena, to whom a Compur shutter was an open book. finally I managed to obtain an exposure of something like 1/25 second, and with this I had to be content"
is that a particular camera
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I'm reading a book at the moment Eriv Newby's "The last Grain Race where he mentions working on his camera which he describes as a Compur
I quote from page 203, "I thought sadly and enviously of the technicians at Jena, to whom a Compur shutter was an open book. finally I managed to obtain an exposure of something like 1/25 second, and with this I had to be content"
is that a particular camera
Is he talking about a lens or could it be a camera model?
if anyone wants to read a great book on sailing "The Last Grain race" is a beauty
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here you go
https://camerapedia.fandom.com/wiki/Compur
learning all the time :boozing:
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Compur shutter…controls both aperture and timed exposure …i.e. f2.8 thru f128 aperture and shutter speed
He’s bemoaning his inability to fix it…can’t get anything but 1/25th of a second, instead of a range from 1/500th to 1-2secs
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google is your friend
https://skgrimes.com/products/shutters/compur-shutters/
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"Compur is a long-lived series of leaf shutters that were made by the German company F. Deckel, based in München (Munich), Germany. The Compur appeared in 1912[1] and was based on the Compound, but was equipped with a geared slow speed governor instead of a piston and cylinder device."
http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Compur
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Those aren't that hard to repair , he should've tried a Kowa lens , that's a bit more of a challenge :) . Peter