Nikon FM2n

[yashica1943]

I was given the phone number of a gent who was 'giving away' his old cameras. I phoned him, he lives about half a mile away. I walked round there and found in his garage a big collection, too much to carry, including mint Nikon FM2n outfit with standard lens, Sekonic lightmeter, 4 Tamron Zoom lenses, Zorki, Olympus Mju, Olympus Trip, Halina TLR, Ilford Sportsman, an Old Kodak box camera and some other stuff. Taking the car round to collect it tomorrow..............

[Stephen]

An instant collection, in both meanings!
Stephen.

[yashica1943]

I have now collected the thirteen cameras. There is some stuff that is old and will be disposed of, a box camera, a dirty Ilford Sportsman. An old Tamron 200mm that is full of fungus. But the Zorki turned out to be a Kiev with lightmeter. It is rather corroded inside and the shutter very sluggish. But the meter works and might be good for spares for someone.
There is also a rather nice Olympus 35 SP and a decent Olympus 35 RC. A Mju that doesn't work and a Olympus OM 101 power focus that has fungus, what a strange camera! And a Vivitar 75-150 zoom for Olympus OM.

[lesdmess]

Great catch!
Seems both Olympus rangefinders you got are very desirable - Cameraquest Olympus 35 SP & Cameraquest Olympus 35RC. Hopefully they are both in good working order.

[yashica1943]

I have gone through the camera collection. The two 'metal' Olympus Compacts are in quite good working condition, the Nikon outfit and the Vivitar zoom for Olympus OM are mint. There are seven very interesting German magazines from 1953 and 1954 that I have mentioned on another thread. Everything else has suffered from the years. Now running out of space!

Tested the two Olympus with the same film, 12 exposures in one and 10 in the other. The results for both are very good. Put the Olympus 35SP on ebay.

[yashica1943]

Eventually I pictured the Nikon and the lenses together. The Sekonic lightmeter has gone to a good home. I know they are useful but I rarely use flash.