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The shutter in an X700 is timed electronically and won't work without battery power, a common fault occurs when one tiny capacitor in the timing mechanism fails, preventing the shutter from releasing.

I have no idea what the faux shutter is because the camera had a fairly conventional horizontal fabric shutter. The actual innovatation is with the closed-loop AE mode where the camera will account for a faulty aperture or more importantly, non-TTL flash by measuring light reflected off the film in real time.



"The shutter in an X700 is timed electronically and won't work without battery power"

Wrong. It's a mechanical shutter and the only two things the battery is used for is auto film advance and exposure metering.

Trying to tell me something about a camera I've owned for over 3 decades and have had apart almost as many times is very un-wise.




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