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ruben
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Dear Kathy,
I have no idea who you are, where do you live, or whatever about you. The only thing I know about you is that your name is marked with pen at the interior of the case of an used Konica Auto S2, that I purchased from an eBay seller and arrived to my hands today.
This camera has either been at your hands for ever, or for some time during its ongoing life. It works perfectly in every sense. If I had to classify, according to my experience, purchasing from eBay this type of cameras, not only Konicas but fixed lens rangefinders, I would say that only about one fourth of the cameras I got arrived in such a good health.
The other three fourths belong to a scale ranging from fixable to definitively broken.
Yet this is the first time I write a public thank-you letter, and there is a very special reason why I do it. Astonishly surprising, although the camera shows clear signs of having been rather heavily used, the yellow patch in the viewfinder is the most bright I have ever seen in this cathegory of cameras. Kindly let me detail a bit here.
In very broad lines, I could split the rangefinder cameras according to the type of viewfinder principle they work on. There are cameras like the Soviet Kiev, the German Contax, the Japanerse Yasica Electro series - which in order to have a bright yellow patch use a rather dark viewfinder.
The other variation has been a yellow patch on a clear viewfinder. Your Konica belongs to this cathegory. Along thirty or fourty years the huge amount of these cameras yellow patch did not survived.
But your camera has brought the most bright yellow patch I ever got, among let's say some twenty rangefinders of clear window type I have bought along .
Thrue, I have paid a relatively high price to the seller, but only making justice to the camera working health. True, I will have to give the camera a good external cleaning with special proceedings and liquids. But true as well that this is going to be one of those rare cases in which I don't have to open the camera for any adjustment.
Dear Kathy, Some times I have googled my own name and I have found it related to this forum. It is my hope you'll do the same one day and find this letter. I am aware this is a one sided message you will not be able to answer.
Nevertheless, hereby I through the bottle into the ocean.
Cheers,
Ruben
I have no idea who you are, where do you live, or whatever about you. The only thing I know about you is that your name is marked with pen at the interior of the case of an used Konica Auto S2, that I purchased from an eBay seller and arrived to my hands today.
This camera has either been at your hands for ever, or for some time during its ongoing life. It works perfectly in every sense. If I had to classify, according to my experience, purchasing from eBay this type of cameras, not only Konicas but fixed lens rangefinders, I would say that only about one fourth of the cameras I got arrived in such a good health.
The other three fourths belong to a scale ranging from fixable to definitively broken.
Yet this is the first time I write a public thank-you letter, and there is a very special reason why I do it. Astonishly surprising, although the camera shows clear signs of having been rather heavily used, the yellow patch in the viewfinder is the most bright I have ever seen in this cathegory of cameras. Kindly let me detail a bit here.
In very broad lines, I could split the rangefinder cameras according to the type of viewfinder principle they work on. There are cameras like the Soviet Kiev, the German Contax, the Japanerse Yasica Electro series - which in order to have a bright yellow patch use a rather dark viewfinder.
The other variation has been a yellow patch on a clear viewfinder. Your Konica belongs to this cathegory. Along thirty or fourty years the huge amount of these cameras yellow patch did not survived.
But your camera has brought the most bright yellow patch I ever got, among let's say some twenty rangefinders of clear window type I have bought along .
Thrue, I have paid a relatively high price to the seller, but only making justice to the camera working health. True, I will have to give the camera a good external cleaning with special proceedings and liquids. But true as well that this is going to be one of those rare cases in which I don't have to open the camera for any adjustment.
Dear Kathy, Some times I have googled my own name and I have found it related to this forum. It is my hope you'll do the same one day and find this letter. I am aware this is a one sided message you will not be able to answer.
Nevertheless, hereby I through the bottle into the ocean.
Cheers,
Ruben
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