triswebNo idea if anyone here cares about this, but I finally found an otherwise broken Fujica #GS645, but with a perfect lens optically. I can now swap it in for my otherwise mechanically perfect GS645, with a lens that’s covered in fungus and flares whenever pointed even slightly toward bright light.
ChrisR@trisweb I think that is brilliant, well done you! Bellows OK? (I have the GS645S bull bar one, was expecting to get a GS645 but ISTR kept getting warned about fragile bellows!)
@carusb I got the bellows replaced in mine last year by one of the last remaining repair shops for them. They did a good job and it is in great shape.
It is a fragile camera for sure but when it works, man, it’s something. I think if you like the S though then it’s the same general quality and probably a better focal length anyway, so I wouldn’t feel the need to jump into bellows if you don’t need to.
@trisweb Yes I do like the GS645S, although I wish I'd realised that the meter was not TTL before buying. A TTL meter would have helped me NOT leave the lens cap on, which has cost me a LOT of film! I do love the focal length and the lens is a cracker. I struggle with the rangefinder workflow, though; almost all my other cameras are SLRs. I need to practise more!