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Hello people, does anybody know a reliable repair tech for a Leicaflex SL, just bought one and would like to get it CLA'd. Location should be Germany. Thank you! Battle of the tanks?

this is just an old beater one to practice on....

Hello photrio, I've been trying to figure out what type of electronic wires the minolta SRT uses. Does a cable like THIS work? if so which one works? since there is a conductor resistance and a current, would prefer not t fry the camera. I could use a multimeter and measure it but I don't have...

Thanks for all the suggestions so it is possible to remove it thats good news! I probably will go over some of the options in the next weeks and decide I don't want to rush anything.

Hello people, This is one for the Pentax aficionados. I bought a pentad KX from eBay advertised as broken, the film counter wasn't working and was lose in the housing so I opened it to investigate. The screw of the counter broke off, I watched a video were it says that the screw has to be...

@mikeg Mike I received your postcard 5 sheep, I like it a lot specially the sheep with the big horizon. It says you shot it on acros and developed it in rordinal but I usually don't like rordinal because the grain is rather big, but on yours even if its a small print I can't see any. Is this how...

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@Jim Christie I really like the paper that you used, canon pro matte pm 101. Will defiantly try this one in the future.

Being a little late, sent out all cards today. Originally I tried to print them in the darkroom I made 20 prints but it was horrible haha. I had no easel, the paper was expired and they weren't sharp or flat they look like they come straight from the gutter compared to the inkjet print. I...

Had to re-glue the asa/iso dial, it fell off. Repainted the white lettering on the camera with 1 euro acrylic paint, what i did not do yet, is replacing the mirror damper. On the XE it's deeper and very far into the housing compared to the SRT damper seal/cushion. Not very easily accessible.

New update, the brass screw is indeed there to make adjustments, I had a SRT which was broke took the string connected it first on the aperture ring then to the aperture plate. There was still wiggle room so I adjusted it perfectly with the brass screw. Now everything is assembled and seem to...

I'm currently trying to figure out the length of the pulley, the one that was on it only went to f11 and the other one teared when I tried to make adjustments on the brass screw marked in the picture, the adjustment room for the pulley seems very small. You also have to count in the position of...

I hope this makes sense here what I tried to picture.

thank you I was kind of stuck and you made me think out of the box I tried a different approach and it worked I will later follow up on how I fixed it.

okay so I changed the part however on assembly I encounter this problem, there is a spring which creates the tension on the aperture plate wich is connected with the front with a string. I have to turn the spring 2 times and then put the aperture plate on top however there is no space to keep...