6 April, 2023
PPP Cameras – Repair & Servicing Review
Buying for life means maintaining for life. This is true of anything; if you want for your leather boots to not dry out and crack, but to live up to their brand reputation as la...
The moment digital photography became accessible to the greater population without significant barriers to entry, film became a luxury good.
I do not mean that film photography...
25 March, 2021
Fixing Vertical Rangefinder Misalignment in Compact Rangefinder Cameras – 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...
8 August, 2020
A Couple of Bodged Fixes for a Pentax PC35AF – By Seb Copley
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
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...
10 February, 2019
(Mis)adventures with a Minolta Himatic 7s – 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...
19 January, 2019
Function and Repair of Hasselblad Film Backs (A12 and others) – By Arild Edvard Båsmo
If you are reading this, you might have a magazine with some problems. This piece is written to help you. I found there to be very little documentation on the repair of these, b...
Here is how I repaired my Voigtlander Nokton lens, the 42.5mm for the M43 system. I had dropped it. The lens filter, a B&W ultraviolet model, was shattered, and, worse, stuck on...