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Carved, not built<div></div>

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Crossing the Shigar River in Karakorum, Pakistan<div></div>

<p>If you decide to try an sell your outfit on ebay (which I agree is what you ought to do), please ensure that your offer page is viewable internationally. The IIa was manufactured during the first post-war years, and due to the prevailing economic conditions back then many, not to say most were sold in the US. Now however they consistently fetch higher collector prices in Germany and Japan.</p>

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Hanoi, Vietnam<div></div>

Monument to Balmat and Paccard in Chamonix-MontBlanc<div></div>

Hoshang Shah's tomb in the abandoned fortress city of Mandu<div></div>

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<p>MacoDirect also sells a slide film (arguably the main reason for wanting to use a 4x4 camera) which uses the AGFA RSX200 emulsion. Using this requires the capability to prevail on the lab and have them developing the roll in E6, though, because for some uncomprehensible reason the film itself claims to be a negative to be developed in C41.</p>

<p>Of course there are good photo stores, but I have to ask - what is your goal in aiming at purchasing equipment during your trip? VAT has just been raised in Italy to a MINIMUM 22%, and the items you want to acquire are very likely to be more expensive than in many/most other countries in the world.</p>

<p>Brad, wait for a minute... there is something here that just doesn't sound right. I've never seen a Canonet with stuck aperture blades (altough I've seen plenty with stuck shutter), and i cannot begin to understand how this could possibly be.</p> <p>Let's start from the beginning. With the camera in manual mode (that is, with the aperture ring on any value but "A"), turning the ring will visibly close or open the diafragm. Does this happen in your camera? Pressing the shutter and recocking it will not cause the camera to return to full aperture, because this is not a SLR. The diafragm will remain at the set aperture, because this is the normal working mode. Or, are you saying that turning the ring will only close the diafragm, but when turning it in the opposite direction the aperture will remain where it is? In this latter case I'm afraid it is not a matter of a CLA and there is some major damage.</p> <p>On the other hand, with the camera on "A" cocking the shutter will bring it at full aperture. When the shutter is pressed, the diafragm will close at the aperture as selected by the meter, and will stay there until the shutter is recocked. Does your camera do this, or are you saying that several firing/recocking procedures are needed? If this latter, what is the camera's behaviour in manual mode?</p>

<p>Brad, I now realise that I may have misunderstood you, or perhaps (please don't take this as an offence) you don't understand how the GIII works. Are you really talking of the aperture blades - meaning that the shutter blades work just fine? In that case my previous post is meaningless, but we will need to discuss other aspects.</p>

<p>As said by others, and summarised by Winfried. I would just add this: before going through the cleaning process as described, you might try and just drop a little lighter fluid through the selft-timer slot. This will NOT permanently solve your problems (unless you are very lucky), but it should free the shutter blades for a short while. It if does not, then there could be a question as to whether the entire cleaning process will work.</p>