I just received a Fuji 180 and have had it just long enough to try a few shutter speeds. B&T work, the rest sound relatively in order.
It was listed at a very good price and BGN.
With bare eyeballs the glass looks clean and scratch-free. The only blemish i've found is a scratch in the enamel of the ring around the rear element. It looks like a spanner popped out of the slot. and I care not one whit. [ I spose I will if it turns out the element spacing was badly adjusted, but no reason to think it has].
i did buy a very cheap Pentax 6x7 body whose shutter failed- the second curtain apparently follows the first erratically and too closely. Then in testing all my bodies i discovered another had the same problem- so erratic that I had had no clue except an occasional bad frame over several years, so i consider the problematical one from KEH a good investment just to identify the glitch in the other body, which had been "CLA'd " for more than I paid to KEH.
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