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03-27-2012
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sp9107 is offline
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Nice find! They seem repairable... from these photos. Leicas never die, not even from water!
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03-27-2012
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Pop them on Ebay as "Minty!!!!" 
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Brian Legge is offline
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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?
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Ow. Those pics are painful to look at. Hate to see such fine pieces of machinery reduced to rusty rubble.
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03-27-2012
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Ouch! 
Hope someone can give these the kiss of life.
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I can see the perfect text that needs to be used in the advert . . . . "worked fine the last fine they were used"
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03-27-2012
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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.
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03-27-2012
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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.
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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
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03-27-2012
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sp9107 is offline
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03-27-2012
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lenses
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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04-09-2012
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Ouch! I think they can be repaired, but it won't be cheap!!
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04-09-2012
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr_Flibble
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... 
And then preserve the look...
Derk
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04-10-2012
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David Hughes is offline
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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...
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