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Smiffy
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, February 07, 2005 - 02:15 pm: | 
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Thanks to all who aided me to remount the mirror in the range finder. I did it last night and today,without to much of a problem.
However the image is off to the left,and I have tried to move it with the ajustment screws but this has been to no avail.
Is there anyone who would be able to have a look at it for me. I would ship it and pay for return postage.
Any help apreciated. [email protected]
Regards Graham |
charlie
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, February 09, 2005 - 10:45 am: |
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I know nothing about Konica Auto S2's but many fine cameras of that era were made without rangefinders. If the camera takes good pictures it is worth learning to estimate distances. You can just tape over the rangefinder window if it is distracting. |
Smiffy
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, February 09, 2005 - 01:35 pm: |
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Thanks for that, will be cheaper,but will get it seviced anyway... |
WernerJB
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, February 10, 2005 - 06:39 am: |
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Hi again, you can do this yourself,you'll find how to do it in "Konica Auto S1.6 Repair Adventure
Shutter/aperture stuck, rangefinder missing, and rangefinder alignment" by Kar Yan Mak right here in this forum in the "camera articles" section. All you need is a suitable screwdriver of some quality and, last but not least, a churchtower, a smokestack, a lamp post or any other upright object in a distance: set the camera focus to infinity point it to the distant test object and SLOWLY and CAREFULLY turn the screw(s) until the two shapes of the double image of the rangefinder line up, i.e. become congruent, and there you are! In your case it is presumably mainly the screw for vertical alignment you'll have to work on, as you just reglued the rangefinder mirror and left anything else untouched. Vertical alignment is usually done first anyway. It is not so difficult as it seems to be, and the feelings of insecurity creeping up our backs is because camera technicians often brag about how difficult everything is and how absolutely clever they are in comparison to ordinary people,like so many other things in life this may be understood as a question of us & them and of critical self-esteem, of course. |
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