

Bronica's cameras are highly valued by professionals as well as amateurs. The founder, Zenzabur Yoshino, invested the complete working capital into the production of the camera body and left the fabrication of the lens to Nikon. I misplace them all the time (finding them when I get a new one or two). manjo, 1 steveb3 And yes, get more than one. I got a good deal on it so I'm hoping I won't have to return it. Bronica started out in 1958 with the introduction of the Bronica Z on the Philadelphia Camera Show. All these (mechanical) cable release will come wound up, you need to unscrew them so that the pin can move freely. I tried a cable release as well and same thing.ĭoes anyone have any ideas? This is supposed to be a working camera so I feel like I'm missing something, but I've owned one of these in the past and am stumped. There is no threaded cable release, but there is a contact near the backrelease button for. It just feels stuck, the same feeling you usually feel when you try to shoot with the dark slide in. BRONICA GS-1 ' 6x7-cm single-lens reflex camera ' Separate. I have tried disconnecting both the lens and the back and it still doesn't fire. I've tried with film or without when the camera is in multiple exposure mode. I just purchased a Bronica SQ-A off of eBay and can't get it to fire, with or without a battery (battery loaded is a Energizer A544, but I've also tried a second battery that I've confirmed works in my Pentax 67).
