Vintage film cameras

[Kenzie]

Originally Posted by yokohama

Still after a Lynx? or something different?

Probably a Konica S at last!

[johnnyrod]

Tisk you're overthinking it

[Kenzie]

Something with a Zeiss badge on?

[johnnyrod]

coughcoughcough

Wait and see if I get it yet

[Kenzie]

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[yokohama]

Originally Posted by Kenzie

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The first one looks a good bundle. The zoom lens seems to be held in pretty high regard too. I'm a bit reticent to touch the untested/sold as spares ones 'cos I don't have too much faith in my knowledge of camera mechanics and my repair skills.
It does look a nice machine though. Whisper quiet steel shutter.
However, having said that, I think some kind of minor surgery is needed on the Dakora and the Ikon

[Kenzie]

Send them to Johnny, he'll fix them.

[johnnyrod]

I work for food

SLRs are tricky, they're very delicate and not very intuitive. The old leaf-shutter cameras are much easier. I've got various stripdown pics on my Flickr for some Zeiss ones, the latest one of the Contessa LBE will likely be the most useful as it's the simplest set of pictures.
https://flic.kr/s/aHskzugULo

[yokohama]

Looking at the internals is scary. It kind of puts me off. The food option might be the one to go for.

[johnnyrod]

Chinese FTW. Actually I did a bit of work on PhilSV's bike and earned myself a Christmas turkey.

It's not so bad, the many rings come off first, which can take a bit of fiddling. The whole shutter can be flushed with lighter fluid but if it's grotty then it's likely to move a lot of the grot around. I would say if the lens looks clean enough (flashlight test) and the shutter speeds sound like they are doing something right, give it a go. I made a shutter speed tester and have a barrage of solvent bottles so can manage most types of grot! I guess I've spent a year at it so easy to say from this side of the fence.