Well heres the couple I bagged off - The Nikon is immaculate and it was easily one of my favourite cameras back in the day. The internal auto winder is very fast, the metering was always right on the money and it was tough as old boots despite its plastic appearance. The seller let it go at £50 and it was complete with a boxed and pristine Nikon 35-105 zoom. Back in the day mine usually had a 28-80 zoom on it as my 'keep at my side' camera.
The Chinon was filthy when it arrived but a clean up and plugging on an old lens I have had for some time and it really looks the bomb ! I just put new seals in her as the old ones were on their way out. The CE5 I was a bit disappointed in originally as its VERY plastic but its really grown on me - it handles really well and its stop down lever/button is much better placed than almost anything I have ever used. Its match LEDs for metering are pretty solid and the metering seems accurate.
The downer with Chinons is they were meant to ever be taken apart- so if you have muck on the top of the focus screen/prism etc its a nightmare to get at and you have to risk busting the camera. On the upside they don't seem to have used half so much degradable foam as the folk at Fujica so gunk on the internal less of a possibility.
Last edited by Astro-Baby; 01-05-2020 at 05:56 AM.