On the way home from the office today (on call technical support), I spotted what looked like a vintage camera case in the window of a thrift shop. It turned out to be a Konica C35 Automatic, a compact rangefinder from the early seventies I'd been eyeing on Yahoo! Auctions for a while in Japan, and they only wanted six bucks for it. There's some minor deteriation of the foam seals, but other than that it's clean and feels solid. This will be the perfect take-anywhere camera to keep in my bag. I just need to buy some dirty cheap film to put through it.

Update: I shot a test roll today which came out quite well despite not enough battery power to operate the meter needle. I replaced the old 1.35v mercury battery with a Wein Cell MRB675, which is meant to replace any camera specifying PX675 mercury cells, and it's like new. And my request for the missus next hair cut to be like that of the Konica model above was respectfully declined.

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