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Olympus 35ED

The little olympus in question  I got this camera as a giveaway something like 7/8 years ago. It had a cloudy viewfinder, fungus on the lens and the camera would be erratic in terms of exposure. Upon arrival I decided that it was too problematic to deal with and it ended up residing in a box with broken cameras (for spare parts) for years. Recently, a friend contacted me to tell me that he found an Olympus 35 ED and whether I was interested in it - thinking that I have nothing to lose, I decided to take apart my 35 ED and see if I can fix it - if that didn't work, well, I'll have another one soon. Olympus produced many nice fixed lens rangefinders from the mid-1960s up until the end of the 1970s. I am not going to go into details as I'm not very knowledgeable about each of those models. What I do know is that the 35ED was a budget model, full auto, aiming to the amateurs who did not want to bother learning the basics of exposure. The camera is equipped with a reliable Seiko...