After some corrective bending, it worked just fine. It turned out that the sliding mechanism with the aperture engagement pin being bent back, keeping it from working as it should, was the only light meter problem, nothing electrical. The latter objections, however, didn't seem to stand in the way of my picking up an old Nikkormat FTn, sold as is, but described as seeming to work except for the light meter, for six bucks plus postage off of the auction site. Normally I would have a certain aversion to over-hyped brands and premium brands (which I suspect overlap), but a lot of that is because, as much as I might like sometimes to have champagne tastes, I usually have a beer budget. Next to my interest in Pentax cameras (and their shirttail relations) and compatible lenses, no less the screw-mounts than the k-mount variations, and somewhat more manual focus than autofocus lenses, is a parallel general interest in the history of photography, photography equipment, and various brands of camera and other photo equipment makers and labelers.
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