The Film Retriever

Canon EOS 10 /10S "Good while it lasted". Or "A midsummer night's dream". Or a fantastic camera that went wrong. The EOS 10/10S was a groundbreaking camera at its time, really a step ahead from competitors, offering superior AF speed / accuracy and overall performance that only cameras costing twice the money (mainly Minolta 9Xi) could offer.But unfortunately those great cameras suffered from a major drawback, a shutter susceptible to malfunction due to the shutter bump foam getting deteriorating and eventually seeping through the shutter blades in the form of a tar-like oil, causing a "lazy shutter", i.e. a sticky shutter. This affects the 6XX / 10(s) / 100 EOS camera series, the bumper was replaced with a rubber one on the EOS 5 but it seems that in the case of 10/10s the problem is more prominent. You can actually bet that at some point the camera will suffer from a lazy shutter. You can always open the back and try to remove it yourse...