A short guide on how to Repair Nikkor-Q 135mm f3.5 Lens.Nikon has been making the 135mm f3.5 lens since around 1959. The first version was around from 1959 to 1969 and was called the Nikkor-Q. The original lens had 4 elements in 3 groups and is easily recognised as its focal length on the beauty…
Repair Nikkor-S 35mm :- A short guide to servicing the Nikkor-S 35mm f2.8 Lens.Nikon has been making the 35mm f2.8 lens since around 1959. The first version was around from 1959 to 1962 and was called the Nikkor-S. The original lens had 7 elements in 5 groups and is easily recognised as its focal length…
The Nikon FTn finder in common with a lot of cameras from the golden age of film cameras contains a fair amount of foam. Like the Olympus OM-1, the Canon FTb and many others the foam around the prism slowly degrades. When it does the foam turns into a toxic goop that will de-silver the…
Film Camera Service – There exists within the classic film camera fraternity something of a mythology about Japanese cameras being ultra-reliable. They will ‘oohh’ and ‘aahh’ about how their 40-50 year old camera still works. The truth is they are often unaware that, while these things were made to a quality that no manufacturer outside…
Learn Camera Repair – Although film is making something of a come back, one of the areas that is a huge potential stumbling block is the fact that most professional technicians are now either retired or close to retiring. In the UK over the last few years a whole bevy of some of the most…
A step by step repair and servicing guide for Minolta Rokkor PF 50mm f1.7 MC-X Series lens. The MC-X Rokkor PF is actually part of a series of lenses loosely known as the MC-X series. These were a kind of halfway house between the earlier MC Series and what would be the last Manual Focus…
How to clean a focus screen: – One of those things that comes up endlessly on forums for classic cameras is ‘How do I clean a focus screen?’ to save my fingers and to try and antidote a lot of bad advice out there I am creating a handy article that I can now link…
A step by step repair and servicing guide for the much loved Minolta MD Rokkor 45mm f2. The MD Rokkor 45mm f2 lens was, believe it or not, a low cost budget lens that Minolta primarily fitted to the budget XG series of cameras. The lens has now become something of a hyped up item…
A step by step Nikon 50mm Repair Guide f1.8 AiS with notes on managing the Series E version of the lens. Copyright 2022 High5Cameras, Free to use, copy and distribute so long as no charge is made for use, distribution or access and authorship and web address is freely acknowledged. The Nikon 50mm f1.8 AiS…
A step by step guide to Minolta X-700 capacitor replacement in the popular 35mm SLR Camera. Copyright 2023 High5Cameras, Free to use, copy and distribute so long as no charge is made for use, distribution or access and authorship and web address is freely acknowledged. The Minolta X-700 is one of the most popular cameras…