I seem to recall that the Mamiyas were kind of heavy, clunky things. My
'in case I need to use a screwmount something or other' camera is a
Fujica ST605n, a relatively compact and nicely finished body. I bought a
newly CLAed one for about what you paid for the Mamiya. It's no OM, but
rather a nice camera - and nice and clean and the foam is good.
Of course, the lens I wanted to use on it won't fit, it projects too far
back and hits the stop-down mechanism.
Moose
Lama-Jim L'Hommedieu wrote:
The popular M42-mount Mamiya/Sekor 1000DTL had a mercury battery but the later
DSX1000 takes our old friend, the SR44. Anyway, it
arrived today and after I cleaned it up, I discovered that the 55mm had a stuck aperture.
I put a small amount of "Goo Gone" (a
light solvent) on a Q-tip (cotton swab), and daubed it on the aperture pin,
then started working the aperture pin. Then daubed
again, worked the pin again. And again... I can't really claim it was cost
effective but I got it working again.
I'm gonna use John's instructions to replace the foam when I get around to it.
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