Repairs & Cleaning Archives

25 March, 2021

Fixing Vertical Rangefinder Misalignment in Compact Rangefinder Cameras – By Bob Janes

By Bob Janes

Those who shoot rangefinder cameras on a regular basis are probably aware of (they may even feel plagued by) vertical rangefinder misalignment. A camera rangefinder works by su...

30 October, 2020

Canon Serenar 50mm f/1.8 Repair – Hazy solution to a hazy problem – By Boon Kiat Lim

By Boon Kiat Lim

To start off, I would like to state that I am neither a professional photographer, nor a journalist of sorts. This will probably help reduce any expectations you may have as a r...

23 October, 2020

Inside the Mind of Minolta – an Investigation of the Internals of Minolta’s SRT 303 – By Bob Janes

By Bob Janes

As I mentioned in a previous article in which I dissected an Old Canonet, I have occasionally taken interesting but non-functioning cameras apart - mainly to investigate, but th...

8 October, 2020

It’s Dead Jim – A Dissection of an Old Rangefinder Camera – By Bob Janes

By Bob Janes

This article is a little different. It is very much focussed on a camera, but I’m hoping it will be of interest to photographers to give some background and understanding to the...

8 August, 2020

A Couple of Bodged Fixes for a Pentax PC35AF – By Seb Copley

By sebcopley

After returning to analogue photography a few years ago with a Minolta Hi-Matic 7 rangefinder, I began looking for a second film camera. I was looking for something totally diff...

6 February, 2020

A slightly troubled tale of replacing vintage camera leather – by Christopher James

By Pixels and Grain Photography Collective

I’ve started seeing more photos of vintage cameras with their leather covers replaced, and to me they often look great. Other than a few useful flickr posts and some short video...

7 June, 2019

Minolta 28mm f/2.8 M-Rokkor – Shooting and Repairing – by Victor Doroshenko

By vzzdor

Inertia of mind is sometimes mind boggling. I've started my serious photography life with Sony nex-5 camera which replaced a briefly owned Nikon D40 for the reason of compactnes...

10 February, 2019

(Mis)adventures with a Minolta Himatic 7s – By Matt Evans

By Matt Evans

I had been trawling the online market places and managed to snag a Minolta Hi-matic 7s on trademe (the NZ version of ebay). It was advertised as being in excellent condition wit...

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