Had a run of bad luck fixing rangefinders last Tuesday in Austin

Honestly, that Tuesday was something else. I had three rangefinders come in from local photographers, and every single one had a different issue with the patch alignment. First one was a Canonet that had the RF patch completely blacked out, took me 45 minutes to figure out it was just a tiny piece of debris stuck on the mirror. Second one was a Yashica Electro that had the RF going out of whack after a drop, had to realign it twice before it held. Third was a Minolta Hi-Matic that had the viewfinder fogged up from old lubricant and I ended up tearing it down to the bones. By the end of the day I had a mess of tiny screws on my bench and a headache. Has anyone else had a day where everything just fights back like that?

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the_anthony3d ago

Man, I feel that pain deep in my soul. Last month I had three Leica M3s in a row with stuck RF cam rollers and I nearly threw one of them through a wall.

torres.drew3d ago

Someone's probably buying all those bad ones and making a killing on parts afterwards.