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Earlier today, a mate of mine called around with a suspicious looking package. It turned out to be a camera he'd picked up at the bottom of a box of "assorted tat" from a car boot sale on Wednesday. He'd bought the box for a old tin-plate car he'd spotted, paid his 50p and wandered off happy. Then got to the bottom of the box and found this...
all tucked up in one of those (n)ever-ready cases
He brought it to me "because you still use film camera's don't you - i'm happy with my digital, so it's no use to me, you may as well have it!"
First impressions are (mainly) favourable - the lightseals appear in pretty good nick and the rangefinder is clear and pretty bright. It does appear to have had a battery go green and furry inside though - a quick look in there shows the battery terminals to be gunged up, and one of the cables has come adrift by corroding through. Still a simple soldering job though, but i'll probably replace the entire wire when I strip it down. And why will I be stripping it down? It's a canonet - the shutter is sticking every 5-6 clicks, and it really doesn't like shutter speeds below 1/60th:shake: It's just a little too unreliable at the moment to stick a film through it, so i'll be having a session with the screwdrivers over the next few weeks (whenever my hands are steady enough 
)
Problem is, it handles so nicely, if I end up unable to fix it, I'd put money on my going out and buying a working one
all tucked up in one of those (n)ever-ready cases
He brought it to me "because you still use film camera's don't you - i'm happy with my digital, so it's no use to me, you may as well have it!"
First impressions are (mainly) favourable - the lightseals appear in pretty good nick
and the rangefinder is clear and pretty bright. It does appear to have had a battery go green and furry inside though - a quick look in there shows the battery terminals to be gunged up, and one of the cables has come adrift by corroding through. Still a simple soldering job though, but i'll probably replace the entire wire when I strip it down. And why will I be stripping it down? It's a canonet - the shutter is sticking every 5-6 clicks, and it really doesn't like shutter speeds below 1/60th:shake: It's just a little too unreliable at the moment to stick a film through it, so i'll be having a session with the screwdrivers over the next few weeks (whenever my hands are steady enough )Problem is, it handles so nicely, if I end up unable to fix it, I'd put money on my going out and buying a working one
