It's been a while since I bought a job lot of cameras to unbox, let's find out if it's a good one or a load of rubbish. Website: gideonliddiard... Instagram: / gideon.liddiard Facebook: / gideonliddiardphotography
On the current exchange rate £18 is ~$34 Australian. There is one of those Brownie Reflex cameras for sale not far from me for $50 and it is in way worse condition than the one you pulled out of the box. I reckon your £18 was pretty well spent, overall.
I bought a non working Electro 35 GS a year or so back and I managed to replace the pad of death without removing the leatherette. It was a bit fiddly, but with the top off, I was able to get into the pad area with a pair of tweezers, clean off the old pad and fit a new one.
I would be interested to learn more about the thing you mention regarding vintage flashes and new camera. I assume the electronics generate very high voltages and this high voltage probably do no good to the hot shoe of a modern one, but I don't know the details
I bought a Yashica GTN (and the battery adapter) with POD problems. Took it to a reputable service centre who told me the cost of the repair would be worth more than the camera. Told them to use it for parts. They didn't charge me for the examination and scrapped it. I also found that the diamond shaped focusing patch in the viewfinder was too small and unclear (for me as a glasses wearer). Just because Spiderman used one doesn't make them any good.
Hi, I'd defo love to hear about using old flashes on modern bodies. I have a ton of them but I'm scared to put one on my Fujifilm X-T5 in case I fry it.
My photography class at school used the Kodak instamatic cameras they were good basic cameras back in their time and I am surprised that they still exist as collectors pieces because once they stopped working most people just threw them away because of their age and condition
Unlucky with the main item. It is a camera that I have seen listed often and been put off bidding as the prices have got stupid. Thanks for the heads up about the common problem that I wasn't aware of, so I will be cautious about that model. Keith
Hi Gideon, unlucky this time although I'd leave the batteries in the Electro as it may come back to life eventually once the capacitors re-charge. Bargains still out there, last Sunday at a car boot sale picked up a 1962 Canon FP body only for £5.
In a charity shop, I found a corroded FinePix s7000, for a fiver (cleaned works fine) the following week found a new in box, never used Hanimex TS/855 for £7 with all the filters and everything. Back in the day I used om10/20s and used flash to "stop" action/
I've been looking for a focus finder like that forever. I have the microscope style one and it's bloody impossible for me to see through. I'd have been happy just with that for 18 quid!
I’ve had 7 electro 35s in various guises over the years. Not a single one has ever worked fully. One was sold as working, but the shutter was sluggish, and thanks to the badly manufactured thread inside the lens barrel, I couldn’t get the front element out. Frankly, I don’t rate the build quality of the electro 35 at all, which given that the fx-2 and the fx-d were such great cameras, it’s hard to believe they were from the same manufacturer
Not surprised at all, I've now picked up a Lynx 5000E and the difference is night and day. The Lynx is smaller, better built, has a different shutter mechanism (with no Pad of Death), is fully mechanical, and is fully manual. Yet the sell for far less than the Electros!
@@gideonliddiardphotography Makes sense. A mate of mine has a Lynx 14 which he loves. The electros should in theory be superior, but they are just not reliable enough after such a long time, and they're a pain to work on if you need to dismantle the lens. The prices for them in working condition are still quite silly as well, but that's Spiderman's fault entirely :) I'm definitely not on ebay no looking at Lynx 5000E's.... not at all.... not even a little bit.....
@@gideonliddiardphotography it is not, they look very different (compare with say, a patterson grain focuser), its a slide viewer (compare to the various KAISER offerings)
