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Got a Konica off a guy at a flea market in Tulsa for $5 and the shutter was stuck open, now I can't decide if I was lucky or dumb
I was walking the booths at a flea market in Tulsa back in March when I spotted a Konica Auto S2 sitting in a shoe box with a $5 tag on it. The seller said it came from his uncle's attic and he had no clue if it worked. When I got it home the shutter was stuck wide open on B, so I soaked the blades in naphtha, worked them with a toothpick, and it's been clicking fine for three months now. My buddy says fixing a $5 camera is a waste of a Saturday, but I say every stuck shutter teaches you something. Do you all bother with cheap yard sale bodies or do you only take on gear worth real money?
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parker_hall53h ago
Used to be pretty snobby about only messing with gear that had actual value, but that was mostly because I was scared of breaking something expensive. Fixing up a cheap body like that Konica honestly teaches you more than any YouTube video, and you can't really mess up a five dollar camera... worst case it stays broken. Your buddy is looking at the money and missing the whole point, which is that you now know how to unstick a shutter and that skill sticks with you.
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finleym373h ago
That line about being scared of breaking something expensive hits home. I stuck to cheap bodies for like two years for the same reason and honestly those are the ones where I actually learned stuff. Worst case it stays broken is exactly right, you can't lose on a five dollar camera.
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