Two new arrivals here in recent weeks.
The first is a Yashica GSN I found at an antiques place for $15. On the plus side, the cosmetics were really good and it came with a full case in nice shape. Unfortunately, the battery was corroded in place and the Pad of Death had died long ago. I extricated the battery and cleaned up the terminals, cleaned everything else inside and out (the shutter wasn't bad at all, but I cleaned it anyway), and replaced the POD with a new piece of hard neoprene. Add a new 28L battery in a cobbled-together adapter and it works perfectly (test roll exposed and developed).
The second is a pretty rare camera, or so I'm led to believe by the Interweb: an Olympus Pen D3. This is a near-last-of-the-line Pen, the last of the classic bodied ones, fitted with full manual controls, a CdS meter, and a six-element 32/1.7 lens. This one led a much harder life than the Yashica. It's got bumps and bruises, the meter doesn't work despite my efforts thus far, the front lens element has got some significant pock-marking from something (but the rest of the glass is clear, thankfully), and the shutter was misbehaving in any number of ways - good thing I didn't pay too much for it. I tried half-measures, but in the end I had to completely disassemble the thing right down to the shutter blades (which had decided to fall out of their intended positions somehow) and rebuild it. Fingers crossed it actually works as designed now (test film is in and waiting to be shot).
I added the hoods to both. I like hoods for my cameras, plus I understand the Yashica can be prone to flare. The Olympus needs all the help it can get with the front element looking like it does.
