New camera (well almost)

Some months ago, I had the chance to get a Kodak Retina Reflex III that I got from my father, who got it from his father also... The camera was almost not working, so I decided I should get another one from eBay, which I did. I bought one at a very modest price, and it worked perfectly during 5 months, letting me shoot almost 10 films. Now the mechanism that triggers the shutter is broken. I did not even try to repair it, and it seems it will be quite complicated and very expensive also to have it repaired by a professionnal. So if anyone here has any clue on how to get it fixed, I would be infinitely grateful.

Here are some sample shots taken with that Kodak body:

                

Now the last camera I have recovered from my father is a Canon AE-1 (pictured below), first introduced back in 1976. I have managed to load an BW Ilford film inside, and started to take some shots. But the shuttering sync does not look right so I may get surprising results. This won't prevent me from shooting the whole film and prey to get clean pictures.

Why am I interested by old cameras, while I started photography with a simple digital camera? Maybe because I felt the need to discover the origins of this technique. And surely because so far I could not play with depth of field, and it is very pleasant to know that you still can get pretty pictures with 50 years old camera bodies. I will update here as soon as I have news concerning the Kodak & Canon camera. Hey, what do I see outside? Rain? This will be perfect to make a photo session during lunch time. More news later...