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  1. The Electro ages well and it's quite sturdy, at least the chassis. I rarely found bad specimens of this camera. Yours has served your father, it's even more special. A lot more
  2. Well, that makes a lot of sense. I'll ask the owner if he wants me to check. Thank you for the lead!
  3. Thanks. I had a look at those levers but everything seems ok. The sequence is: Shutter uncocked: mirror stays up, the mirror levers keep it up by their own tension (see first picture). If I cock the shutter, a cam-rotated blocking lever (the one placed on the left wall, towards lens-side) blocks the frame of the mirror, it rotates innards (i.e. in the direction of the focal plane) and matches exactly a bump in the mirror's holding frame. See second picture. If I pull the blocking lever, the mirror comes down, sprung by its own levers (third picture). I am not really sure if it's a matter of levers being displaced. It seems that the blocking lever is there to keep the mirror up during shutter delay, it's just that it triggers at the wrong moment. It's a strange thing, without opening the camera I'll never know I guess.
  4. gabrieleB

    Fallen giant

    An artillery casemate bunker, displaced by years of abandon and erosion. The silent witness of one of most ambitious Hitler's follies: the Atlantic Wall. Fuji c200 equivalent (Agfa)
  5. You are absolutely right. My interest is purely technical, given the camera is not mine. If I only had more information on the assembly I could have at least figured out what to do in case the owner wanted it to be fixed (he doesn't, apparently he doesn't trust my familiarity with fine-mechanisms ). I am back in to photography after a long hiatus and I discovered I am fascinated by German designs, no matter from which era or which side of the Iron Curtain they come.
  6. Hi Greg, Indeed I found your post in my search before asking my question. I guess here the issue is not about convenience, rather understanding what happened to this camera out pure curiosity. Nevertheless, my friend will pick it back up next week, apparently he has other plans than repairing it (don't ask me).
  7. Thanks John, I should get soon a copy of the book from a friend.
  8. Yes I bought them in two very different periods of my life: the first one is a love at first sight on a street market the second one is the spare camera I bought for me when my daughter told me she would have loved to learn shooting film (see me melting...). Cleaned, re-sealed and in complete full order, never failed at me. I can tell which one is mine because I stick a film label on its back to remember what I am shooting, otherwise they are identical and quite near as for their serial numbers. I like the fact young people interpret photography in a very natural way, yet they remain astonished when one shows them the classics (from real photographers). But definitively, sharing the same moments it's all what it's worth, I guess you understand me.
  9. Twice an Electro 35GSN! My daughter and I share the same camera and we often engage in "same-same-same" photo safaris (same camera, same film, same places).
  10. I understand it will be a long trip fixing my friend's camera. Does anyone know if some technical or repair manual exists? What would be the best sequence to open the camera and reach the front mechanism?
  11. Precisely what I understood, I am no Praktica expert however and was reporting what my friend told me. I should assume that either the camera is a specific sample or has been broken all the time my friend owned it ;)
  12. An expired film gives a post-apocalyptic mood to a picture of two tourists on the terrace of the Museum Messner on top of the Plan de Corones.
  13. Hi, newbie here. A friend of mine gave me a Praktica Nova 1b PL that has a mirror stuck up in the upper position. In his own words, the mirror should come down only when the shutter is cocked. I can bring the mirror down by tilting a lever on the left side that keeps it locked in the up position, this can happen effectively only if the shutter is cocked. However I noticed that the same lever comes in to lock position after the shutter is released, effectively blocking the mirror in the upper position. I am a bit puzzled because I don't find on the net a clear explanation of the "normal" behaviour" of the mirror for such a camera model, let alone finding a service manual. The mirror is brought down by the sliding side-arms, the lever I speak of doesn't seem to be involved in the release, it doesn't make sense to me that it comes to the lock position. Any Praktica expert out there willing to hep me?
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