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Appears to me like the back of it might need a look, and possibly some attention - does the back close snugly, and the lenses fit correctly? The orange cast in that picture looks a bit like fogging due to light leakage.

Or, if you hadn't had the film developed for sometime after the pics were taken, and hadn't stored it in the fridge, it could be deterioration in the film's emulsion. This will inevitably occur over a long time, and typically presents as an orange cast in colour film. Alternatively, if the film had been exposed to extremes of heat, this would speed up the decay of the emulsion. Prior to processing, was the film/camera sat on a shelf in the sun for a while, for example?

If it is as ropey as you suggest, I'd chuck it away a spend a bit more money here:

http://www.jessops.com/used/

They provide an excellent service, and if your local branch doesn't have the used item you require in stock, and there's one elsewhere in the country, they'll send it over for you! Might I be so bold as to recommend something like a Pentax K1000 or ME Super, or a basic Minolta?

Good luck! :o)

Used to have one o' them. Fookin brilliant! Still the best body ever made. I thought they were pretty hard to come by these days.

ME Super also very good little camera.

It could be leaking light, yes. It's the same model of camera that took the classic picture of Zappa yawning - was it at Woburn Abbey? It's also the first production camera - I think - to have through the lens metering. Looks like Clint Eastwood does in those old films.

If I had an open choice of a new camera it would be a top-of-the-range digital Olympus - it would complement my little Olympus Trip that never goes wrong.

I took a lot of black and white photographs of stones, in the mid-70's, on a Brownie box camera and then destroyed the lot during my Saturn Return. I'd like to see those images again !

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