For anyone that stumbles on this video, the C35 originally used a px675 mercury battery, if you use an LR44 the light meter will be off by a full stop because the camera expects 1.35v not 1.5v. There's a mod you can do to make them work properly though, or you can just buy Wein Cell's mercury free px675. Either way make sure you have a lens cap since there's no way to turn off the metering.
Whenever I am considering a new camera I always come and see whether you’ve done a video on it - always well rounded and informative! Thank you so much!
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Great summary! But a note: The C35 FD you mentioned off-hand is the same camera as the Auto S3 in the US export market. I've never heard anyone describe the C35 FD quite that derogatorily and I've not come across them with any less reliability than the more vanilla C35 types like you showcase here. The C35 FD/Auto S3 is an absolutely fantastic camera; avoiding it is a loss.
@@japanvintagecamera8869 That seems like quite a run of bad luck... simply because by that standard I evidently know nearly a dozen people that have or have had "a jewel". Conversely, my bad luck seems to be with this original C35. I've had 2 (3?) of them come through my hands in just the past year, each one in good working condition, but with a dead light-meter.
@@japanvintagecamera8869 Can you elaborate what "bad meter" means in those cases? Wiring rot? Bad solders? Failed CdS? What kind of symptoms and if they were bad, don't you encounter/inspect all of these purchases in-person since you're in Tokyo? Why did you buy them, or did all somehow fail immediately after?
@@londroskots It's great. If you're usin an LR44 battery just be sure to stop down your exposure. So if you're using Kodak 400, set the ASA to 200 so your pictures will tend towards overexposed as opposed to underexposed. Great little camera though!
I recently got one, but the light meter is stuck at auto 1/30th of a second. Which is a pain most of the time, but I sure had a fun time using this tiny camera. I heard you can try resoldering the wires connected to the battery chamber because they do tend to corrode, or replace the wires entirely. I tried Haha. Didn't work. To be honest, even if you said that the FD's were unreliable, I still want one and would probably prefer it Haha. It's better than nothing. Even if the apatature is inconsistent or stuck at f1.8. I love the viewfinders in these cameras too! They're wide and the focusing box or dot in the middle is massive compared to other parallax viewfinders I've used.
Your videos are such a wealth of information. Love it. I found a C35 V (E&L) at a thriftstore. It was dirty and in need of some tlc but the lightmeter works! One thing though is that the filmspeed dial goes out of alignment so that the ASA values appear behind the lightmeter window. I cannot seem to workout how to fix that. Can you give me any tips or tricks? Already took out the black plastic dial but I can’t figure it out… Anyways, love your videos. Thanks!
The C35 EF has the same lens, coated (I don't know if the one in the C35 featured in this video is coated), and is a viewfinder camera. That is, it's not a rangefinder but a scale focus. Three distance references show up in the viewfinder as you change focus, and if you want to focus more precisely there are feet and meter distance indicators on the down side of the lens. Like with this one, aperture and shutter are all handled automatically, so you need to have one with a working light meter and a battery (if the light meter is dead it'll always shoot at 2.8, 1/30 if I remember correctly - it will not shoot without a battery in it). It's a beautiful camera, easy to use. It can produce really wonderful results in the hands of anybody since you just need to point it at something, frame by the image, focus quickly and that's it. Its amazing for street photography.
@@JeffDvrx thanks! Great info :) I picked one up and the photos are wonderful. I followed the Konica rabbit hole and also got an Auto S3 which so far is quite good!
@@floatingpoints1507 Konica made amazing stuff with top notch lenses :). I got an Auto S, it's the camera I use the most even though it's a freaking brick lol. What can I say? the brick is really capable and I'm quite fond of it lol
@@JeffDvrx The C35 EF was the first one I had - it was my grandmothers. Came back to life easily. I couldn't believe the quality of the results from the first roll from it I shot in 2016. Since then I've become a Konica addict. Hugely overlooked, especially the SLR autoreflex cameras.
