Konica C35

[Penny Lane]

All I need to do now is to shoot a test roll...

Derk

22 shots in, I dropped it on the floor of the car. It died... Back to square one :bang:

Edit to update: well... Another wire re-soldered and it's back alive. I'll get good at this at some point, though I'd rather have it behaving as it should 🙂

Derk

 

[charjohncarter]

Some of them have stainless steel wires which are a real problem because you can't solder them. But when you get one working, even with the complete auto only feature, there is nothing in its class:

 

[Penny Lane]

It's not the soldering per sé this time, but what happened is that of the two battery wires one seemed OK. Don't think it is; do a full re-wire, or don't bother. Only the flash wire has a decent survival rate, not normally coming into contact with battery acid.

Oh well. It lives 🙂

Now that I know what kills these things though I'd happily get another one to fix up. Not a very difficult repair.

Derk

 

[tonyc]

I bought a cheap C35 with a dead meter from a flea market.

One day I opened it up, and took a look at the meter cell.

I went to Maplins [UK electronics store, like RadioShack] and
bought a cheap LDR cell that turned out to be identical.

Replaced the dead LDR with the new one, and it worked a charm !

Worth trying, and not too hard to fit.

PS it is a great camera for a 6 year old !

-TC