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weird camera fixes

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Yup, another post about getting my cameras fixed. Just be glad it's not about getting flat tires on my bike all the time, the way it was last Summer...

XD

It seems I was a bit hasty in my self-congratulation on fixing my XD body. The mirror that I reset was almost in the right place, only... now I can only see the bottoms of the digits on the aperture screen. I know the numbers well enough to know 5.6 from 16, but still, it's an annoying mistake to have made. Though how I'd have tested for that with the guts of the camera hanging out I'm not sure.

35DC

Then there's my little rangefinder. It came back from the shop with a funny problem -- when there's a flash attached it thinks that no flash is attached. And when a flash is not attached, it thinks that a flash is not attached. Naturally this means that I'll only rarely get an appropriate exposure. I guess I've got to take it back! 8(

X700

I've found someone who'll repair the light leak on my X700. He says that it's not a big deal to fix and that he'll have it ready for Monday, a cheap matter of redoing the light seals (as pointed out by a reader of this journal some weeks back). That's the good news. The bad news is that the 35mm f/2.8 MD Celtic lens that I had on the camera at the time has been knocked out of whack and now won't focus on infinity. I've decided to let that disappointing Internet purchase (it wasn't billed as a "Celtic" model, but as a true MD (e.g. Rokkor)) go unfixed, and will shelve the lens.