Recently acquired from ebay, Pentax ES II, cosmetically and optically like new EXCEPT that Viewfinder blind is locked shut, and nothing I do (shutter-speed dial, battery-test button, exposure-compensation-dial, hitting it, praying) has any effect. I COULD just gestimate the distance frame bygolly, and shoot, and with that lovely Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 1.8/55, it would probably come out with a good photograph, ... but with such a beautiful TTL, it seems a shame.
Ah, but what fun it might be for us to travel out to your area for some landscape shooting - and showing our technique by making these "slow" AF Pentax lenses capture the bicycle spoke motion!! (What's a Canon?)
I didn't start the group, but I think it is a good idea.