sp9107sp
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Basement flooded about 20 years ago at a neighbors house. found these while helping clean it out. Cameras were boxed during the flood and put in the garage.
Membedeep
Member
Nice find! They seem repairable... from these photos. Leicas never die, not even from water!
Muggins
Junk magnet
Pop them on Ebay as "Minty!!!!"
Adrian
Adrian
Brian Legge
Veteran
How unfortunate.
I'm normally up for project cameras but I don't know if I'd call those repairable. Heck, I've been looking for a dead IIIc or later to get familar with curtain repair... but even getting screws out of those cameras could make repair non-starter. And internal parts are probably about as corroded. On the positive side, I only see bodies here... were the lenses spared?
I'm normally up for project cameras but I don't know if I'd call those repairable. Heck, I've been looking for a dead IIIc or later to get familar with curtain repair... but even getting screws out of those cameras could make repair non-starter. And internal parts are probably about as corroded. On the positive side, I only see bodies here... were the lenses spared?
Paul Luscher
Well-known
Ow. Those pics are painful to look at. Hate to see such fine pieces of machinery reduced to rusty rubble.
Mr_Flibble
In Tabulas Argenteas Refero
Ouch!
Hope someone can give these the kiss of life.
Hope someone can give these the kiss of life.
MartinP
Veteran
I can see the perfect text that needs to be used in the advert . . . . "worked fine the last fine they were used"
Jack Conrad
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That makes me wanna cry...
Rust like that destroys metal. Goners. I'd say the best scenario is they might be used for some select few bits and parts.
Rust like that destroys metal. Goners. I'd say the best scenario is they might be used for some select few bits and parts.
Jack Conrad
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There's an antique/junk store near me that's been selling a Kodak Retina II for years that looks similar. They only want $75 for the camera. Looks like it was a decoration on the bottom of an aquarium.
I told them if they gave me $5 I'd put it out of its misery.
I told them if they gave me $5 I'd put it out of its misery.
Beemermark
Veteran
A long time ago, when everyone else was old and I was young, I had a neighbor who had a beautiful, mint 2.8 Rollieflex on his fireplace mantle. He used to take yearly fishing trips into the great Canadian beyond. Big plane, little plane, seaplane then boat. No modern conviences, nothing. So one year he bought a Rolleiflex to capture the natural beauty of the area. First day he dropped it over board. Had to wait 2 weeks for the seaplane to return. Oooooooooops
sp9107sp
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sp9107sp
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some of the rust on the surface of the barrels is coming off, the summitar lens that is cleaner on the glass had a filter on it, but the blades are heavily rusted
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some of the rust on the surface of the barrels is coming off, the summitar lens that is cleaner on the glass had a filter on it, but the blades are heavily rusted
Kent
Finally at home...
Ouch! I think they can be repaired, but it won't be cheap!!
Penny Lane
Hopelessly Citrophile
Ouch!
Hope someone can give these the kiss of life.
Rick! Don't say that. Now my hands are getting itchy to do something about it... :bang:
And then preserve the look...
Derk
David Hughes
David Hughes
I dunno, but there ought to be a lot of lenses about with poor glass in them but OK metal bits. You see them on ebay and the glass in this one might just be OK to make one out of two. Or two if you sell the worst of the worst on ebay with - of course - "untested as I don't have a battery" in the description...
Regards, David
Regards, David