Camera Body Repair: – Whether you’re restoring a treasured vintage camera or fixing a recently acquired classic, finding the right repair guide is essential. This page brings together links to film camera body repair guides, covering a wide range of brands and models. From shutter and winding mechanism repairs to viewfinder alignment, light seal replacement, and complete overhauls, these resources can help keep your camera working reliably. Whether you’re a collector, enthusiast, or professional photographer, making it easier to preserve and enjoy analogue photography.
What is Lens Fungus: – 2,400 Million years ago fungus developed. Long before most life on the planet and it’s been going ever since. These days if you’re an avid photographer with a penchant for classic lenses you’re most likely to discover it in a lens and will want to remove lens fungus quickly. So, […]
The Minolta XG-1 was the second in the XG series launched in 1977 as a budget camera to complement the top of the line XD series. Unlike its predecessor the SRT series, the XG series was all electronic. By the time the XG series came to market the SRT series was looking tired but would […]
The Olympus OM-1 like some other cameras from the golden age of Japanese film cameras were fitted with foam around the prism. The foam was there to protect the prism but paradoxically in the long run the foam has done more damage to old cameras than just about anything else. Cameras susceptible to this include […]
This guide will show you how to check for decaying foam in the Canon FTb prism and how to manage its replacement. For a full Canon FTb Service guide check out our full downloadable CLA Manual If you’re considering buying a Canon FTb why not check out our dedicated review The Canon FTb is prone […]
Really? You’re going to do light seals as a subject? Sheesh! This gets asked every week on camera forums. Yep! It does and rather than repeat myself, I wrote this guide to replacing light seals to help beginners out. This saves my fingers and the resulting RSI after typing the same answer out a few […]
A step by step guide to repairing the underated Minolta 50mm f1.7 This Minolta MD Lens Repair Guide can also be used for many other short focal length MD series lenses such as the 50mm f2 (which is identical in construction) and the 28mm, 35mm and 45mm MD types. Most short focal length Rokkors […]