Praktica LTL3 needs servicing: vertical shutter only opens half-way

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Isaac Grover - 25 Nov 2005 04:36 GMT

Good evening,

My father-in-law has owned a Praktica LTL3 for a number of years, and
is reluctant to purchase a new digital camera because he likes his
Praktica. The problem is that the vertical shutter only opens
half-way, so one half of his pictures look great, but the other half is
black.

Where can this camera be sent for reliable service, and is it going to
cost more to repair than buying a good digital camera?

Thanks in advance,
Isaac Grover, Owner
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Ian Harding - 25 Nov 2005 13:36 GMT

> Good evening,
>
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> Where can this camera be sent for reliable service, and is it going to
> cost more to repair than buying a good digital camera?

I don't know about service costs, but I suspect it will be cheaper to
buy another LTL or MTL from ebay. Plenty to choose from, often sell for
next to nothing.

Ian

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Steve Gouldstone - 25 Nov 2005 16:47 GMT

>My father-in-law has owned a Praktica LTL3 for a number of years, and
>is reluctant to purchase a new digital camera because he likes his
>Praktica. The problem is that the vertical shutter only opens
>half-way, so one half of his pictures look great, but the other half is
>black.

Is it just with flash pictures? If it is, then it sounds as if the
flash synchronisation is broken, or maybe he's just using too fast a
shutter speed (so half the frame is cutoff as the flash isn't on when
some of the shutter's open).

Tell him to try taking a flash picture at a 1/30th sec shutter speed
and see if that makes a difference.

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Tony Polson - 25 Nov 2005 17:31 GMT

>>My father-in-law has owned a Praktica LTL3 for a number of years, and
>>is reluctant to purchase a new digital camera because he likes his
[quoted text clipped - 9 lines]
>Tell him to try taking a flash picture at a 1/30th sec shutter speed
>and see if that makes a difference.

I never knew the Praktica LTL3 was a digital SLR.

It must have been *years* ahead of its time ...

;-)

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Pete D - 29 Nov 2005 06:43 GMT

> I never knew the Praktica LTL3 was a digital SLR.
>
> It must have been *years* ahead of its time ...
>
> ;-)

????

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