I bought a Nikon S about sixty years ago and used it briefly to do what I still consider my best street work in New York. I regretted selling the camera and thought about replacing it ever since. So, I bought one on ebay from a guy named Igor in Cleveland.
The camera looked almost like new except for a couple bumps on the leather on the back. The only functional issue was a very slight vertical misalignment of the rangefinder. Fixing that requires taking off the front panel to get at the adjustment port.
The little oval hole next to the viewfinder window on the right contains the vertical adjustment mechanism which consists of a set screw to lock the adjustment and a a ridged wheel which is turned to move the image up or down. The adjustment was accomplished easily. The front panel went back on with just a little careful wiggling to get it in place over the rangefinder focusing wheel on the left.
As I expected, the Nikkor-S 1.4/50mm lens yielded nicely sharp results from the first roll of film I got through the camera.
I won't be able to duplicate the kind of work I did with the camera in New York, as pounding the pavement for miles in a day is no longer an option for me. However, I'm still looking forward to becoming reacquainted with an old friend.
