Just inherited a Mamiya-Sekor DTL 1000

Sirius Glass

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Enjoy!
 

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I have one of those! It was my uncle's and the light meter isn't working. I tracked down *the* guy who does Mamiya repair, primarily medium format. His opinion was that, unlike the medium-format Mamiyas, the 35mm cameras really weren't designed for repairability, and said the meter repair probably wasn't worth it. "I'd do if it you put a gun to my head," was his exact phrase. (And he wasn't being jerky -- he was a super nice guy and talked to me extensively about the camera.)

I was a bit bummed -- but I am keeping half an eye out for an example with a working meter.

Aaron
 

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The 1000 DTL takes SIlver Oxide batteries. Not mercury, so no issue there. They were very solid well built cameras using the M42 screw mount, so there's a gazillion lenses that will work. One of the few M42 camera that works with current batteries (see page 6 of the instruction manual that Paul provides a link to).
 

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It was one of the first SLRs I used as a kid in the 60s, belonged to my dad. I still have one now, I quite like them. I really like the average and spot meter function.
 

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Be careful if you are tempted to put the Mamiya SX lenses on a different screw mount body. The open aperture metering pin can drop into one of the M42 mount screw points and make the lens difficult/impossible to remove without a total strip down. I believe some Pentax M42 bodies were prone to having Mamiya SX lenses jammed on them.
 

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Almost all cloth focal plane shutter cameras from that era will need to be cleaned for proper use.

For example, I got this Rolleiflex SL35M from 1972, pretty much new in box in 2005. I finally got around to making a shutter tester a few months ago and this is how the shutter measured prior to cleaning:



 
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