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RMD · Feb 4, 2020

This site should be of interest to anyone contemplating camera repair :

https://learncamerarepair.com/productlist.php?category=1

AgX · Feb 4, 2020

Thank you !

I just had a very short glimpse at lecture 6 and found a b-diagram of a mechanical shutter, something that I have not seen elsewhere.

jim10219 · Feb 4, 2020

I just discovered that site for the first time the other day while looking for a service manual. I was quite surprised with how much info they have, and how it's all free. I guess it's fairly new. It appears as though it's only been around since May of last year.

AgX · Feb 4, 2020

One advice I may give to the editor is to whiten answers once handwritten after the educational questions given in the lessons, before scanning them. That would be benefitial for students.

Also I just discovered his offer, next to the training course, of specific repair manuals. That is great too!

Louis Nargi · Feb 4, 2020

Thank you vary interesting

Helios 1984 · Feb 4, 2020

Saved for future consultation. Thank you

mpirie · Feb 5, 2020

What a great resource; the host needs to be thanked for pulling such a huge volume of reference material together and making it available to the wider public.

Mike

cmacd123 · Feb 5, 2020

mpirie said:
What a great resource; the host needs to be thanked for pulling such a huge volume of reference material together and making it available to the wider public.

the folks behind the site will gladly accept money via Paypal. they also have a companion group on Facebook. The leader is a person who has been doing camera repairs as his profession for many years.

Note that they recommend that one follows the steps in order as the lessons assume you are familiar with the material covered previously

monopix · Feb 6, 2020

cmacd123 said:
the folks behind the site will gladly accept money via Paypal.

I'm sure they will. However, it needs pointing out that they have taken manuals from other sites, where they are freely available, and added them to their site and then asked for 'donations'. They are clearly trying to monetise the site and make money from it and are happy to abuse other people's generosity to do it. Most of the Contax service manuals they have they copied from my site. Many are manuals I have paid for and spent hours scanning and creating PDF copies of. I have no issues with individuals copying the manuals but this is clearly heading towards commercial use. I've already asked them to, at least, acknowledge where they came from and that is wasn't them that spent the time and money creating the files. But I see they have done nothing about it. I'm starting to see Gene Pate and Chris Crawford as being rather less charitable than they are trying to appear.

Contax manuals can be found at http://www.contax139.co.uk/documentation

AgX · Feb 6, 2020

Yes, some manuals I know from other sites, others I had searched for in vain in the past. Concerning earning money: nobody is obliged to pay that and everyone may contemplate why he should. At least those of us who frequently search certain documents will soon have realized that some documents presented there are taken from other sites, or at least showed up there before. And even those sites not necessarily are those who put them online first. Those sites may already have gone under. And Butkus, highly praised here, even dares to claim copyright on all manuals he presents!
But I understand your feelings in this case.

Another thing are the courses. Those in the long past were not even available to me in the printed form. So I appreciate that the rights owners behind National Camera seemingly allowed to present them on the net. I shall look into them and maybe comment. About additional, payable courses we shall see.

Marcelo Paniagua · Feb 6, 2020

Thanks!! Maintenance manual library is huge!

Marcelo

jay moussy · Feb 6, 2020

(moved, as I posted in wrong thread)

titrisol · Feb 7, 2020

YAY! Compur and Synchro Compur repair manuals!

cmacd123 · Feb 7, 2020

titrisol said:
YAY! Compur and Synchro Compur repair manuals!

better, if you follow alog on the course, their is a guided tear down and reassemble on those and other shutters.

cmacd123 · Feb 7, 2020

AgX said:
Yes, some manuals I know from other sites, others I had searched for in vain in the past. .

I understand that many of the manuals have been scanned from paper manuals in the collections of the two gentlemen who have set up the site. so it is posible that they have scanned a manual that someone else may have previously scanned another copy of. I am just very happy to see them as most of the are otherwise Unobtainable.

The material from National Camera - which was out of print for years was specially scanned with permission.

Wayne · Feb 8, 2020

Hmm...do they cover Kalloflex?

AgX · Feb 8, 2020

cmacd123 said:
I understand that many of the manuals have been scanned from paper manuals in the collections of the two gentlemen who have set up the site. so it is posible that they have scanned a manual that someone else may have previously scanned another copy of.

Those manuals I have seen before are from the same scan in all cases I checked.

titrisol · Feb 10, 2020

cmacd123 said:
better, if you follow alog on the course, their is a guided tear down and reassemble on those and other shutters.

I had a Compur-Rapid from an AGFA_Isolette that was stuck open, and was looking for the manual
Read the manual and got it fixed in a jiffy

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