Post by belgiumreporter on Nov 21, 2022 6:21:22 GMT -5
This contax II with 1:1.5 sonnar just arrived, i bought it cause it looked good though i should have known better. The first thing i tried was cocking the shutter. The film wind was completely jammed not the slightest movement possible, consequently the shutter speeds couldn't be changed or selected. The finder is very foggy but as far as i can see nothing wich can't be fixed with a good cleaning. The film wind/ shutter cocking is a problem wich i won't be able to fix myselve. I just opened up the front of another contaxII to fix the jammed focussing gears and after an afternoon of cursing i was glad i at least got everything back together and not being left with yet another box of parts. The contax i've just bought came from a private person so there's little ground to me to complain, maybe the very nice sonnar does soften the blow a bit.
