Loosely film related, but what would you do?

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Over the past few years both of my in-laws have passed.

Neither were particualrly interested in photography, but my father-in-law did have an old Ricoh FF AF3 which I then inherited after my mother in law also passed and we were clearing the house.

I picked it up and have been using it a family gatherings as way to keep them involved in making memories.

However, I took it to one event and someone spilled drink on it. The lens cover has been sticky ever since but it worked.

Then last time I sent some film off, the developers told me it was blank. I don't know if it was the camera or the film, so I bought another identical camera.

The question I have is: Do I tell anyone?

I think not. but be interested to see how you'd approach it.
 
Not going to answer your question but will suggest you pop a roll of B&W through it and post it off to a forum member who develop their own film and we will find out if the camera is OK. Maybe the blank films were a developing error?
 
My late father's Zeiss Ikonta 524/16 had a really horrible case, bits falling off, stitching coming apart etc. Unfortunately it's hard to use without the case, as the camera itself has no strap lugs. The cheapest thing to do would have been to buy a new one with a better case. But that wouldn't have been HIS camera (I have hundreds of negatives from that camera). I did try to find a separate case, as that had no particular sentimental vale to me, but couldn't. In the end I paid an absurd amount of money to have it properly repaired by a saddler who lives nearby. If i thad been my late father-in-law's camera, I might not have been so attached to it.

I'm trying to say, no-one can answer that question except you! But I guess I'd be open to my siblings about whatever I'd done.
 
Kell said:
The question I have is: Do I tell anyone?
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No, unless you decide it's time to stop using it - then I would tell them it's stopped working. No reason not to have it cleaned and serviced first though, just in case it could be restored to life, rather than buy another.
 
It's a bit late now. You already made your choice.
 
Unless the camera is a treasured family heirloom then I expect most of your relatives probably won't really care.

I wouldn't mention it unless it comes up in conversation somehow, at which point I'd be honest, say the original was accidentally broken when someone spilled a drink on it, and that you decided to keep the memory alive by replacing it with another camera of the same make and model.

You know your relatives, and how they might react, best in this situation though.
 
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