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Tinkerer
Username: Zelandeth
Post Number: 3
Registered: 06-2009
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, June 24, 2009 - 04:33 pm: | 
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This is a project I'm not going to get to until the weekend - as I don't have the camera in front of me - hence the "maybe" on the model name in the title - that's based on my memory of it and photos found on the internet! Is the only Mamiya which looks right though.
This camera developed a fault a long time ago (well before I was born!) following my parents taking it on holiday - popular theory has been that a grain of sand from a Canadian beach has got somewhere that sand has no right to get.
The fault is that the focus will not come into line at either close distances or infinity - Can't remember precisely which unfortunately, but I'm 90% sure that the problem was at infinity. It's a long time since I put a film through it! One thing which was never confirmed (as I didn't understand it at the time) is whether it's actually impossible to focus the camera - or whether it's simply that the focus and rangefinder are "out of sync" with each other.
Now, when I last had a shot of this camera, I was about 12...and knew a lot about photography for a 12 year old, however (mercifully!) I knew it was beyond me to repair it. Now 15 odd years later, and that my parents have found the camera again (it was lost in a box in the loft for the last 10 years!), I'd like to have a shot at sorting it if possible.
So...assuming that this is something related to the holiday in Canada in the 70s when it started playing up...is this likely to be something that's fixable? Also...is it likely to be fixable without dismantling the entire camera?
I shall be taking this back into my care as of this weekend, when I'll give it a good once over and confirm what model it is! |
