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My Minolta X-700 shutter finally jammed mid-roll at a swap meet last Saturday
I was lining up a shot of some old vinyl records when the mirror locked up and the shutter just stopped clicking. Had to finish the roll by manually advancing and guessing exposures with a phone light app, has anyone else dealt with a stuck shutter on the X-700?
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spencer_wood20d ago
Check the capacitor underneath the mirror box, that little square one fails and cooks the electromagnet circuit. Common fix that people overlook on these.
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olivia57320d ago
Isn't the capacitor thing kinda overblown though? I've had two X-700s and both times it was just dirty contacts on the shutter release that needed cleaning.
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