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Originally Posted by astroron
Best of luck with the camera Baz,I did the same many years ago witha Minolta 101 and a 300mm lens and it kept on working after a clean 
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Hi Ron,
The 101 was a great camera. A classic.
So much less to go wrong with SLR's back then. The worse you could do
is in a panic to change rolls in a hurry because you wanted to capture some
action was forget to wind the old roll back before opening the back.
Back in the mid-70's, a 28mm lens for the
Minolta 303 SLR I had with me
slipped out of the bag, rolled down a sandstone rock and then into a lake.
It all happens in slow motion and you get that terrible sinking feeling as you watch it
roll away. Never found it again and as you will recollect, in real terms
a 28mm lens for an SLR was not cheap back in those days. SLR's and lenses
weren't the mass consumer commodity items they are today.
Maybe 2000 years from now, someone will find it preserved, buried in the mud
and it will be on display next to the Greek Antikythera mechanism as some amazing
artifact from the past.