Taking out the shutter of your pack film camera

So you want a full manual exposure land cam? It's real easy to do. Also, since these things are so cheap and easy to find at thrift stores you can try all sorts of different things with them. The way I removed my shutter from the various land cams is by taking the front part where the shutter is off by unscrewing the 3 or 4 screws on the back of that front part. The part on the front of the bellows. Once I took that apart it was easy to see the shutter peices and just take em all out. You dont need any of that. Then I just put the screws back in and made me a little lens cap outta cardboard and black electrical tape and I was ready to go. And as for batteries well you dont need any cause all they do is work the exposure system. Make sure you always have some kinda lens cap on and that the rest of the camera is light tight. You dont want any light leaking in and exposing that film. Now it's up to you to experiment with exposure times and lighting. I have used a manual flash, candles, flashlights, etc. wich were all pretty sucessful. On a related note if anyone has been able to make a fully manual sx-70 or 600 camera by removing the shutter or otherwise I'd love to hear about it.

Those yellow arrows are where the screws are located on most all land cams with the bellows. For others like colorpacks and such that don't have bellows the screws are located in essentially the same place.

That's a little lens cap. Not too pretty but it serves the purpose.