Cleaning a Konica Big mini lens ...

[Hamish Gill]

You may or may not have heard of this little gem of a camera, I've not shot with it yet, but it's reputation is very good... Anyway, I picked one up for £5 today, it was a bit dirty so I gave it a little bit of a clean.


Konica Big Mini by Hamish_Gill, on Flickr

have a looksee here Cleaning the dust out of a Konica Big Mini Lens

im genuinely chuffed to have found one of these, it is supposed to be at very least on a par with the yashica T5, but somewhat more of a sleeper ... It's now firmly in the queue for shooting with!

 

[Nik Cannon]

I was looking at this the other day, great looking camera!

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Top work Hamish - I've yet to take a screwdriver to a camera, so props for doing it.

Looking forward to seeing some shots from it.

My year of film project has been somewhat delayed by family dramas - so I'll need to get back on track after June is done.

 

[Nik Cannon]

I'm going to attempt to clean up and sort the sticky apertures of 2 Konica S2's I picked up cheap tomorrow, I've heard this is a common problem with them, something to do with whale oil? Got some free time in between freelance projects, so I plan sorting out a load of Rangefinders I've acquired over the past 6 months or so, sticky seals and whale oil, something smells a bit fishy to me...

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Whale I be dammed!

I'll get my coat - or should that be oilskin....

 

[Rob MacKillop]

I can imagine the camera repair manual from the time of Mrs Beaton - "First catch yourself a whale..."

 

[Dan Cattermole]

Fair play H,
Certainly is the best thing to do with a cheap camera if it has a few issues, take the bloody thing apart and study it
As well as sorting the problem out of course. Lol

 

[Hamish Gill]

Top work Hamish - I've yet to take a screwdriver to a camera, so props for doing it.

Looking forward to seeing some shots from it.

My year of film project has been somewhat delayed by family dramas - so I'll need to get back on track after June is done.

I was wondering how that was going ... Family eh, they always get in the way of your home life don't they ...?

I'm going to attempt to clean up and sort the sticky apertures of 2 Konica S2's I picked up cheap tomorrow, I've heard this is a common problem with them, something to do with whale oil? Got some free time in between freelance projects, so I plan sorting out a load of Rangefinders I've acquired over the past 6 months or so, sticky seals and whale oil, something smells a bit fishy to me...

you will have to let me know I you get anywhere toward fixing these cameras ... If you end up over stocked with working ones, do let me know!

Fair play H,
Certainly is the best thing to do with a cheap camera if it has a few issues, take the bloody thing apart and study it
As well as sorting the problem out of course. Lol

I wasn't expecting it to be so simple ... Very pleased that it was though! £30ish these go for on eBay, so a bit of tinkering and I could be in profit ... I'm not selling it yet though

 

[Ben Jennings]

I too have this in my list of to gets, hope it meets up with the expectation, be interested to see what your thoughts are on this.

 

[Hamish Gill]

There is a little bit of a queue Ben, but ill let you know when Ive got something to say on it.
Hows life treating you anyway, we are well over due a meet up!

 

[Pete Askew]

Seems to get rave reviews. Looking forward to the shots.

 

[Ben Jennings]

Life is good, Ali and Jacob are well, Jacob just start crawling so things are only getting busier. We are definitely due a meet up, Ali mentioned you might be popping down our way soon, and we will have to get ourselves up to Worcester soon.