My MD recorder isn't recording. This will be fun to diagnose.

I once did the hardware for a cool thing.

Quite redundant if mounted to the T80 (itself Canon's first AF camera, which has its own TTL AF and body-powered AC FD lens), but I now have an example of Canon's first-ever attempt at autofocus, the FD 35-70 1:4 AF lens. Sadly this one got dropped, and although most of it is quite solid metal, the weight made the plastics suffer the impact even worse, and there's chunks missing. Also, there was evidence of previous battery leakage - at least it all works well now.

Another calculator saved from the junkpile.

[flickery slowmo video ahead]
Another T80 fixed. There's still a dead T90 around here, but these old cameras are so annoying to work on. Considering yeeting that.

More ongoing camera BS. Paid about $7 for this Alpha A33 that had taken a drop and was taken to an unscrupulous/unskilled tech/methamphetamines enthusiast. Broken FFC latch, violently deleted TVS on lens I/O circuit, broken power circuitry and a short. Plus a mangled battery, and a dented pellicle mirror. Not much to be done about the mirror, but the electronics were fixed and I ordered an M42 adapter instead of buying the proper lens.

Photofsckery part 2/n. New lens, acquired for about US$7. Not ID'd by camera, "00" aperture, error 01 (lens comms error) upon shooting. Found corrosion on traces, pads and vias, plus one TVS diode pin eaten away, plus bad fingers on the focal distance encoder. Patched all that minus the bad TVS, due to not having a suitable part on hand...