Repairs: What does your workplace look like?

[Andreas Thaler]

Do you have your own workshop, a corner in your room or do you work as a guest in the kitchen, like me?

 

[benjiboy]

I find shooting good photographs difficult enough for me, without trying to be a camera mechanic as well.

 

[Andreas Thaler]

I find shooting good photographs difficult enough for me, without trying to be a camera mechanic as well.

Both are fun - and you get to know your camera even better while repairing it.

 

[Dan Daniel]

Well, main work area. The most important things being the cookie sheet with rubber sheet in bottom to keep parts from bouncing or rolling away, and the carpet that stops bouncing and keeps dropped parts on the surface.

This is its own room these days. Small room, maybe 7x8 feet. There are shelves around the walls for storage, test devices, etc. And I have part of a closet for dead parts, mailing, etc. Maybe 125 square feet total. It's nice to not have to move everything to eat, etc. (the source of the cookie sheet system, by the way- can pick up a whole job as a unit and put it on a shelf in the pantry!).

 

[ic-racer]

My workbench photographed with a 75mm Hypergon on 8x10 film.

Not a very good 'scan' it is a photograph of the 8x10 negative hanging to dry. I have not printed it yet.

 

[benjiboy]

Both are fun - and you get to know your camera even better while repairing it.

My cameras are tools, and a "means to an end" and not "an end in themselves", and in more than sixty years of photography, I have not had to spend more than £ 600 total on their repair.
If it gives you pleasure to attempt to repair your equipment, fair enough but I prefer not to.

 

[Andreas Thaler]

If it gives you pleasure to attempt to repair your equipment, fair enough but I prefer not to.

Good to know, then let’s continue with the actual topic

 

[Andreas Thaler]

My dream would be to have my own room to work in, but then my wife wouldn't see me at all

 

[Andreas Thaler]

Well, main work area. The most important things being the cookie sheet with rubber sheet in bottom to keep parts from bouncing or rolling away, and the carpet that stops bouncing and keeps dropped parts on the surface.

This is its own room these days. Small room, maybe 7x8 feet. There are shelves around the walls for storage, test devices, etc. And I have part of a closet for dead parts, mailing, etc. Maybe 125 square feet total. It's nice to not have to move everything to eat, etc. (the source of the cookie sheet system, by the way- can pick up a whole job as a unit and put it on a shelf in the pantry!).

The carpet is a good tip.

I have balls from ball bearings falling onto 110-year-old tiles, and it's unbelievable where they end up in the kitchen, if you even find them.

 

[Andreas Thaler]

My workbench photographed with a 75mm Hypergon on 8x10 film.

Not a very good 'scan' it is a photograph of the 8x10 negative hanging to dry. I have not printed it yet.
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Is this in the basement or in an extension?

 

[forest bagger]

My working place is in my living room:

 

[Andreas Thaler]

My working place is in my living room:


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Brilliantly organized in the smallest of spaces.

 

[ic-racer]

Is this in the basement or in an extension?

It is a little nook inside my darkroom.

 

[Andreas Thaler]

It is a little nook inside my darkroom.

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Charming!

 

[Dan Daniel]

It is a little nook inside my darkroom.

Wonderful camera cave.

Is that an 8x10 enlarger?