"barn find" canon-flex R2000

[belgiumreporter]

I've just finished cleaning and bringing back to life a canon R2000. It came in a lot of "basket" cases wich i won at an auction. It was a serious risk as all of what was in the box looked rather bad. But because i didn't have an R2000 in the early canon reflex collection and with less than 6000 units made they are rather rare. The  camera was very dirty and the focussing and diafragm rings of the 50mm lens were lose on the barrel. All things pointed in the direction the camera was seriously mistreated by someone with no clue on how to use these old canons. The  good news is after a good cleaning and some fiddeling with the dials it came back to life, the prism could be removed as it should and didn't have damage or de-silvering (i've seen worse on better looking cameras), there was a small fungus patch on the mirror but the hydrogen peroxide did it's magic. Shutter speeds safe for one second all seem to work, film transport is a bit rough (compared to the other canon-flexes). When i opened  the lens it was clear there was much damage inside, i've fixed the wobbely focus and diafragm rings but this lens will be display only.

Here it is together with the canonflex, RM and RP, at least now it is decent for display 
  

[paulhofseth]

I always regarded that one as quite elegant but have resisted aquiring one, since I do not use film that much and in principle (a long time ago) only collected Alpas. By now, however, other elegant and ancient contraptions have found their way here, but I still maintain that I do not collect, just never sold the interesting bits and believe the development of cameras and optics is an interesting field to study by using.

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[deanoman]

Well done! I have the first version, and the ultra funky exposure meter. Both still work flawlessly.