mladia
Newbie
I have found a Porst 135E at a trift shop. Its a german, fixed lens, mechanical, rangefinder point-and-shoot, also known under the name Cosina 35 RF.
The lightmeter is powered with a small, separate battery and it seems to be all right. Overall the camera looks optically all right. There were some corroded and expanded batteries for the flash inside, which I managed to remove, but the flash didn't work.
After some test I found a problem with the shutter. When the lens is focused at infinity, the shutter either doesn't or closes really slowly. At a smaller focusing distance, everything seems OK., Something, which is not definitely important, but as far as I can tell the shutter speed is fixed for a already selected ASA and without battery in the lightmeter, the aperture is also fixed.
I tried opening the camera by removing all screws. I succeed with the bottom plate. There is one screw for the top plate, which is left, but I cannot get a hold of it, because it is sitting under the rewinding knob.
Is there some trick to get it unscrewed with a normal screwdriver or I need some special one? Also do you think I am going to menage to fix the problem with the shutter altogether?
Some photos:
https://imgur.com/a/kjGDixj
The lightmeter is powered with a small, separate battery and it seems to be all right. Overall the camera looks optically all right. There were some corroded and expanded batteries for the flash inside, which I managed to remove, but the flash didn't work.
After some test I found a problem with the shutter. When the lens is focused at infinity, the shutter either doesn't or closes really slowly. At a smaller focusing distance, everything seems OK., Something, which is not definitely important, but as far as I can tell the shutter speed is fixed for a already selected ASA and without battery in the lightmeter, the aperture is also fixed.
I tried opening the camera by removing all screws. I succeed with the bottom plate. There is one screw for the top plate, which is left, but I cannot get a hold of it, because it is sitting under the rewinding knob.
Is there some trick to get it unscrewed with a normal screwdriver or I need some special one? Also do you think I am going to menage to fix the problem with the shutter altogether?
Some photos:
https://imgur.com/a/kjGDixj
