I get off on tangents quite often. I wanted an eye cup for an old Canon film camera, but some enterprising person seems to have purchased all the used ones and is charging $32 + shipping. So I found a broken camera with it's eye cup intact for $13. When it got here I took the cup off and put it on my working model, and then the tangent began. See, this was Canon's first eye control AF system from the early to mid 1990s, and the body was actually in excellent condition. A little research pointed to an Achilles heel inside the mode dial. - one Youtube video and a couple pdf's later I thought I could fix it. Well, the mode dial is fixed, but the camera is still broken. However, I can now turn it off and on - which it would not do before. But - what fun I had for about 2 hours.Nikkor-P.C 55mm f3.5 ai'd micro
I get off on tangents quite often. I wanted an eye cup for an old Canon film camera, but some enterprising person seems to have purchased all the used ones and is charging $32 + shipping. So I found a broken camera with it's eye cup intact for $13. When it got here I took the cup off and put it on my working model, and then the tangent began. See, this was Canon's first eye control AF system from the early to mid 1990s, and the body was actually in excellent condition. A little research pointed to an Achilles heel inside the mode dial. - one Youtube video and a couple pdf's later I thought I could fix it. Well, the mode dial is fixed, but the camera is still broken. However, I can now turn it off and on - which it would not do before. But - what fun I had for about 2 hours.Nikkor-P.C 55mm f3.5 ai'd micro
Mar 03, 2026 at 05:41 PM
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However, I can now turn it off and on - which it would not do before. But - what fun I had for about 2 hours.Nikkor-P.C 55mm f3.5 ai'd micro