Took apart a Pentax K1000 and found a dead spider inside the prism housing

I was cleaning the viewfinder on a K1000 last Tuesday and out drops this crispy dead spider that must have been in there for years. Has anyone else found weird stuff inside old cameras besides dust and fungus?

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beth_mitchell1d ago

Took apart a Pentax K1000" - actually it's a K1000, not a Pentax K1000, the brand name is redundant since Pentax made it.

taragrant2d ago

My buddy found a whole moth once inside an old Minolta. It was like the camera became its own little tomb or something... creepy but kind of cool.