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What a find!
Roaming through an antiques mall the other day, I saw a beat up tan leather case with a Nikon logo on the front. The tag said "Vintage Nikon 35mm Camera, Case, Light meter." I'm thinking "cool! it's probably an old F or maybe F2." My heart about stopped when I opened the case and saw a Nikon SP in great condition. It has a W-Nikkor.C 2.8cm 1:3.5 lens attached.
So now I'm the proud owner of a Nikon rangefinder. From what I can tell, everything works beautifully. The shutter speeds from 1s-1/30 all sound like they're properly timed. There are no odd sounds or anything. Film transport is all working. The rangefinder works. There's a black yarn-looking light seal along the top edge of the camera where the back slots in, but no seals I can see on the sides or bottom. I'm assuming this is normal.
Anything else I should check out before I toss a roll in it and give it the ultimate test?
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Nice find! I make it a point to have a look in the antique stores once in a while. I've gotten, on separate trips, a Pentax S2 Super with several Super-Takumar lenses ($75), a Novoflex 105mm bellows lens ($25), and a Mamiya 50mm f/3.5 macro lens ($25). I've also seen lots of obscure cameras that I have no reason to buy but enjoy seeing, nonetheless.
None of that tops a Nikon SP with a lens, however. I'm jealous!
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I'm curious. If you don't mind sharing, how much did you pay?
Ken
"The richness of the experience that occurs when one is exposed tangibly to a subject, material, or process is unmatchable in the abstract... Thus, when 'touch it,' 'taste it,' smell it' become the watchwords, the results are most often extraordinary. Equally extraordinary are the lengths to which people will go to avoid [that] experience."
— Tom Peters and Robert H. Waterman Jr., In Search of Excellence, 1982
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I'm almost afraid to admit this for fear of a gang of APUGers with torches and pitchforks, but I paid $100 for the camera, lens, leather case, and an old selenium cell light meter.
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 Originally Posted by cajuncc
The shutter speeds from 1s-1/30 all sound like they're properly timed.
I take it that there are faster speeds and that you haven't tested these because it is the slow speeds that are normally suspect? Just a thought
pentaxuser
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Great heavens! I've had some decent finds in antique stores, but nothing remotely close to this. Enjoy it!
-NT
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San Diego, CA, USA
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Originally Posted by pentaxuser
I take it that there are faster speeds and that you haven't tested these because it is the slow speeds that are normally suspect? Just a thought
pentaxuser
No, I just "tested" the slower speeds by listening to the shutter sound. I've got a pretty good feel for what the slower speeds sound like. I won't be able to truly test any of the speeds until I run a roll through it though. The faster speeds there's no way I could tell "by ear."
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Awesome find, that's why I keep going back to antique shops despite my 1-100 find ratio 
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Originally Posted by cajuncc
I'm almost afraid to admit this for fear of a gang of APUGers with torches and pitchforks, but I paid $100 for the camera, lens, leather case, and an old selenium cell light meter.
Nah, we aren't that bad... are we that bad?
I'd say you got a fair deal.
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