I recently bought one for a stonking fiver. Looked mint, in it's box, with manual, but it did need a bit of oil on the shutter mechanism.Picked this up for £3 in a charity shop, cleaned the glass, cleaned and glued the mirror back down and it's pretty much mint. Give it a run tomorrow.
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Well I have a few Nikon AF compacts and they have good lenses that give a sharp picture
Five elements in four groups, Sonnar-type, apparently. Fanceh!.
Try pressing on the two arms that lock it open and they should move and allow the front to fold back on the hinges and close.
OK......The camera front door is being held open by the two silver arms at 45 degrees to the body and the door. You will see that the arms have a slot in the middle and a larger round hole at one end. That larger hole is to lockmit it closed there is another one at the other end that you cannot see. Press down on the arms and they sould move a little to allow them to slide back as you close the door. It should take very little pressure to get them to unlock......
The XA has an F Zukio 6 element lensH'mm that should upset the Olympus XA and trip guys
*Another* find from car-boot Auntie - Diana F, made in Hong Kong, with original box and manual
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Always a danger when you find a hanging black bag with something heavy inside, you were lucky you've got a cracker there, lovely little camera it could have been so much worse, it could have been a been a bag of Canons.So this morning I got up and went out to wash the car. Hanging on the door handle was a black bin bag! With a little trepidation I slowly opened the bag which was reasonably heavy to find a note and set of books and this
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Need to do some research as never heard of one before but it looks to be in very good condition
Always a danger when you find a hanging black bag with something heavy inside, you were lucky you've got a cracker there, lovely little camera it could have been so much worse, it could have been a been a bag of Canons.
Oh and the 2 cameras both had a roll of film in them. I'll pop those in the c41 in the morning.
Always worth a look though.The films are blank/fogged in equal measure. Ah well.
Well today I got a centon 500mm mirror lens with an m42 adapter on for a fiver. I can put it on any of my bodies cos I've got an m42 to EOS adapter. I'm going to have a mess about trying to get doughnut shaped bokeh when the sun comes out.
Won't that Mirror Lens be around F8 and a little hard to get a good bokeh at that aperture ?