Cleaning fungus from an SX-70 lens! And 600 modding a Fairchild "W" shutter!

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In the fifth episode of The Instant Camera Guy, a few interesting subjects are discussed during this very spontaneous recording.

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Over the last few days I've been doing my best to assemble fully working camera from a pile of scrap parts that I accumulated throughout 2023.

While I was half-way through disassembling this shutter, I realized it was far too interesting to pass up, and would make a great video!

I end up tackling the following topics:
Fairchild vs Texas Instruments PCBs
"W" spec "Delta Hybrid shutters
a good example of worn-out anti-static layer!
600 conversion of a Fairchild shutter
removal of an insane amount of fungus from the lens cells (fungus removal starts around the half way mark).

The shutter ended up performing beautifully in the end, and I was super happy with the results.

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