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E 18. How to keep old cameras (S2) alive?

Started Jan 18, 2016 | Questions thread
OP eilivk Senior Member • Posts: 2,580
Re: E 18. How to keep old cameras (S2) alive?

Thanks! Yes, maybe cleaning the contacts is a good idea.

And I guess a lot of good advice here:

http://www.e18error.com/repair.html

Good to know. Personally I would not dismantle the camera and clean the lens from the inside! But the paper - or rather plastic - trick worked this time. Air seems safe enough. A friend fixing lots of camera using some electro spray, very little along the lens.

The 2.7 - 3.5 is nice in good light. And useful in rough conditions. Did survive falling to the floor with the zoom out, the 4 cm long (thin) crack at the side of the lens been there for 5 years.

Did not understand anything of the Minolta Dynax 5, not so good on theory, with S2 and the four way dial using M, it all started. But a lot of development since then. Maybe time to put it on a shelf or behind glass.

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