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Appreciation post: the old guy at my bench taught me to test shutter speeds by ear
Back when I was 19 and fixing cameras in a shop off Division Street in Portland, this old timer named Walt made me sit and listen to a beat up Pentax for 20 minutes before I was allowed to touch a tester. He said the 1/60 click should sound like a single snip of scissors, and I still catch myself listening before I even clamp one into the analyzer. Any of you still learn timing by ear before you trust the scope?
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palmer.spencer1mo ago
Read somewhere that old clockmakers did the same thing, just listened to the tick before ever cracking one open. Ears catch stuff a scope won't, like a lazy spring or a sticky blade.
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