Camera Autopsy I

With the abundance of old, un-used, or otherwise broken cameras that I have laying around, I decided to give one a teardown to see the insides.

This camera was the first SLR that I had ever bought; at the time, it was awesome to me. Anyway, it decided to stop powering up, and with it being old and was only $250 or so brand new, I decided this had to be the "ONE".

Here it is all together:

This is the lens after it is taken apart. I had no use for it as I will NEVER buy a Minolta again, so why not...

And the camera stripped of its skin and lens mount.

From My Personal Collection

These are some medals & badges that I photographed a while ago, but never posted up. These are original, and were issued during the war.