Post by casualcollector on Sept 2, 2009 14:39:20 GMT -5
In my relentless pursuit of nearly everything Canon, I came up with a few goodies from the thrifts this month...
...none of which are Canons. Liz did inform me of a Canon she saw at a thrift but it had no model designation on it. Thinking it may have been one of the old RF models, I beat feet to the store the next day. Turns out she was 20% correct as the name ended with ON, much like CanON. This little Nikon FE looks like it led a hard life. Several dents, missing trim from advance and self timer levers. It seems to work happily enough and looks OK now that it's had a quick cleaning.
The Fujica turned up at another junk shop. The ST801 is a cool camera. I believe the first 35mm SLR to use LEDs for the meter indicator. This one was also a bit dirty but functions. I haven't dug out a PX28 to check the meter yet. The diaphragm is sluggish and it seems to suffer a characteristic Fujica problem. The second curtain hangs up or bounces back just short of fully closed. I have an ST705 with the same issue. It does have A 50mm 1.4 so that's a plus.
The Spot is my nomination for the most elegantly styled 35m SLR. This one was jammed. The mirror was tripped but the wind lock was not released. It's a two minute fix but took 2 hours of web search to find it! Transport, mirror and shutter now run perfectly. The battery well is corroded shut and there's a dark band through the viewfinder due to some desilvering of the prism. I bought it for the lens, as my other Spot with the good prism and corroded battery well came without.
These Olys tend to turn up on the plastic fantastic shelf. I prefer the fixed focal length models but this Zoom 35-70 was priced absurdly low. I think of it as having normal, wide and short portrait lenses and it all fits in a pocket (though not as gracefully as the sandard Stylus or Epic). It came with a roll of film and the battery had enough energy left to finish the roll. All pics came out OK.
Keep an eye on the "for sale" category of the forum as some of these will be put up for adoption.
...none of which are Canons. Liz did inform me of a Canon she saw at a thrift but it had no model designation on it. Thinking it may have been one of the old RF models, I beat feet to the store the next day. Turns out she was 20% correct as the name ended with ON, much like CanON. This little Nikon FE looks like it led a hard life. Several dents, missing trim from advance and self timer levers. It seems to work happily enough and looks OK now that it's had a quick cleaning.
The Fujica turned up at another junk shop. The ST801 is a cool camera. I believe the first 35mm SLR to use LEDs for the meter indicator. This one was also a bit dirty but functions. I haven't dug out a PX28 to check the meter yet. The diaphragm is sluggish and it seems to suffer a characteristic Fujica problem. The second curtain hangs up or bounces back just short of fully closed. I have an ST705 with the same issue. It does have A 50mm 1.4 so that's a plus.
The Spot is my nomination for the most elegantly styled 35m SLR. This one was jammed. The mirror was tripped but the wind lock was not released. It's a two minute fix but took 2 hours of web search to find it! Transport, mirror and shutter now run perfectly. The battery well is corroded shut and there's a dark band through the viewfinder due to some desilvering of the prism. I bought it for the lens, as my other Spot with the good prism and corroded battery well came without.
These Olys tend to turn up on the plastic fantastic shelf. I prefer the fixed focal length models but this Zoom 35-70 was priced absurdly low. I think of it as having normal, wide and short portrait lenses and it all fits in a pocket (though not as gracefully as the sandard Stylus or Epic). It came with a roll of film and the battery had enough energy left to finish the roll. All pics came out OK.
Keep an eye on the "for sale" category of the forum as some of these will be put up for adoption.
Roy
