that my Uncle (the same one whose inheritance afforded me a Samsung GX-10 and an Epson V750) had sent me a few years ago. At the time I was pretty sure it was broken, since the shutter didn't move, and I couldn't tell if that was because it was broken or because the shutter was linked to the light meter (he also sent me a Yashica Electro GSN, which defaulted to 1/500 of a second shutter speed if the light meter wasn't working). I put it on the back burner for a bit, since it wasn't going to help me for the last year or so of photo classes, and now that I'm on co-op, and had some time to do some research, found out that it was most likely in need of a good battery, nothing more. After spending 20 dollars on batteries (the 6 volt type that it used are no longer made, so I had to get 4 1.5 volt coins instead), it worked like a charm.
Here's the first image that I scanned from it. The saturation is insane (and I didn't play with that in photoshop either). The graininess, I'm pretty sure, is a product of the fact that I used expired Kodak 400VC, since the same graininess was apparent in images from the roll shot in full daylight, and that I shot similarly lit images with 800 speed Fuji that has less than half the visible grain.
Its probably the most fun I've had with a camera in a while. I can just be carefree with it, not give a shit in the slightest about technical details, just let it do the work.
