DIY repairs of photographic equipment: What topics are of interest?

[Andreas Thaler]

I would like to know what do it yourself repair topics interest you

 

[Sirius Glass]

I voted for mechanic cameras, 35mm cameras, medium format cameras, large format cameras, , flash units and lenses.

I should have added: other cameras [WideLux]

 

[Andreas Thaler]

I voted for mechanic cameras, 35mm cameras, medium format cameras, large format cameras, , flash units and lenses.

I should have added: other cameras [WideLux]

Excellent, I think we have enough expertise in the forum to do this.

 

[Laurent]

I included almost everything except electronic cameras, flash units and other accessories, not because I have no interest in them, but because it's impossible for me to get everything at the same time.

Mechanical cameras are the most fascinating to me

 

[Dan Daniel]

How about technique: how the h*** to get inside cameras, lenses, etc. It'd be helpful to hear and see the techniques and tools people have for this recurring issue.

 

[Andreas Thaler]

How about technique: how the h*** to get inside cameras, lenses, etc. It'd be helpful to hear and see the techniques and tools people have for this recurring issue.

+ 1

 

[campy51]

How about technique: how the h*** to get inside cameras, lenses, etc. It'd be helpful to hear and see the techniques and tools people have for this recurring issue.

Same here

 

[Chuck1]

120 roll film backs, horseman especially.
And shutters: copal, compur(00 especially)and ilex 3

 

[Bearman]

I'd love to see posts about tools. Your top-10 repair tools or "building a repair workspace". Everything, including solvents, lubricants, etc that work best.
I know you typically call out tools used in many of your tutorials, but a summary of your setup would be interesting and useful.

 

[Andreas Thaler]

I'd love to see posts about tools. Your top-10 repair tools or "building a repair workspace". Everything, including solvents, lubricants, etc that work best.
I know you typically call out tools used in many of your tutorials, but a summary of your setup would be interesting and useful.

Thanks, I'll take that into account

Also a good reason to revive this thread:

Show your tools!

So far I have repaired Minox A, Mamiya super 16 and Edixa 16 cameras. That's why I use these tools: The tool on the far left is a homemade tool made from a scalpel. Then of course I have consumables for cleaning and lubricating. - Mineral spirits for cleaning the internal parts and removing...

www.photrio.com

 

[kl122002]

Mechanical cameras mainly , in various format of cameras. I also like to repair mechanical timers.

 

[mtnbkr]

How about technique: how the h*** to get inside cameras, lenses, etc. It'd be helpful to hear and see the techniques and tools people have for this recurring issue.

+1.

 

[Andreas Thaler]

Lenses are of particular interest, as our survey shows. Are there any preferences here, manual or autofocus?

 

[Laurent]

Manual it would be for me, AF seems way too complex and I don't use them anymore (or at the moment)

 

[Andreas Thaler]

Manual it would be for me, AF seems way too complex and I don't use them anymore (or at the moment)

I have recently posted a few repair reports on MF lenses.

 

[loccdor]

How to put it together again after taking it apart. I took pictures, so I knew where everything should be. But it seemed like the assemblers had some jig or tool that I didn't have because I couldn't get the shutter assembly correctly back into its housing. This was an attempt to fix a popped out shutter spring on a Seagull folding medium format camera.

Tricks for testing if lens elements are correctly in their place - had an old Minolta folder that when you focused at infinity in the center it seemed to be focused around 2 meters on the edges.

 

[Nicholas Lindan]

The horizontal titanium shutters in F & F2 Nikons. Specifically resurrecting the shutter mechanism: rollers, timing - especially slow speeds, self-timer (don't really know why, just for kicks/completeness I suppose).