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RZ67 Outfit With Water Damage: Donated for Parts
This RZ67 outfit came into the shop recently and, as you can see, has obvious water damage. All of the equipment is full of fungus/mold/rust. No repair…
RZ67II: Release Failure From Broken Cocking Gear Drive Studs
Servicing an RZ67II. This camera came into the shop with a shutter release issue. Would not work in electronic or mechanical mode. This indicates to me…
RZ67II: Scraping Broken Fine Focus Gear Teeth From Main Gear
Servicing a Mamiya RZ67II body. Replacing a broken fine focus gear. When the gear teeth break, they become embedded in the metal main focus gear and often…
Rolleiflex 4x4 Baby Rollei: Modified 00 Shutter Mainspring
Servicing a Rolleiflex 4x4 (Baby Rollei 127). It's been a while since I repaired one of these and now a remember why I did not find it that joyful. Rollei…
Rolleiflex 2.8F Xenotar: Synchro Compur Shutter and Mainspring
Servicing a Rolleiflex 2.8F w/Xenotar lens. This really clean example needed a shutter service as the blades were sticking partially open as seen in the…
RB67 140mm Macro C: Collided Blades in the 870 Shutter
Servicing a Mamiya 140mm f/4.5 Macro C lens for RB67. The problem with this lens was that the shutter blades collided and are ruined. The second photo…
RB67 350mm f/5.6 APO K/L: Inconsistent Slow Shutter Speeds
Servicing a Mamiya RB67 350mm f/5.6 APO K/L lens. No too common of a lens, image quality and lens glass build is outstanding. This particular example had…
RB67 Pro: Installing New Aftermarket Bellows
Installing new bellows on an RB67 Pro. Replacing bellows was an easier operation when Mamiya still sold repair parts as they supplied the bellows attached…
RB67 65mm Floating Element Lens: Replacing With an 871 Shutter
Servicing a Mamiya 65mm RB lens. This is a later floating element model. The shutter came into the shop locked up. A quick look at the shutter blades as…
RB67 140mm f/4.5 Macro: Locating Pin Replacement and Fungus
Servicing a Mamiya 140mm f/4.5 Macro lens for RB67. Replacing a damaged lens locating pin, removing and cleaning lens lock ring and cleaning fungus from…
Mamiya 645AF 80mm AF Lens: Broken Aperture Ring Gear
Servicing a Mamiya 80mm AF lens for 645AF cameras. Had to replace a broken plastic aperture ring gear. The diaphragm in this lens is electrically…
Fuji GS645S Wide 60: Replacing a Worn Spool Pin Lock
Servicing a Fuji GS645S Wide 60 camera. Camera came into the shop with one of the spool pins unable to lock in place. The second photo shows the camera…
RZ67II: Rough Focus From a Broken Fine Focus Gear
Servicing a Mamiya RZ67II. This body came into the shop with rough focus. In the case of an RZ67II, this is almost always a broken fine focus gear. My…
RB67 Pro SD 120 Film Back: Broken Wind Pawl Locking the Lever
Servicing a Mamiya RB67 Pro SD 120 film back. This back came into the shop locked up, the wind lever would not move. During disassembly, I found a broken…
Mamiya Sekor 55mm f/1.4 M42 Lens: Damaged Filter Ring and Versions
Servicing a 55mm f/1.4 Mamiya Sekor M42 thread mount lens. As you can see in the first photo, the filter threads have been damaged beyond repair by what…
RZ67: Dead Electronic Release, Burned Diode and Moisture Damage
Repair on Mamiya RZ67. This RZ67 came into the shop with mechanical release working, but electronic release inoperative. After removing one of the side…
Nikkor-O 55mm f/1.2 Instrumentation Lens: Diaphragm Blade Repair
Servicing an unusual lens: Nikkor-O 55mm f/1.2 instrumentation lens. These lenses were designed for close focus work and have no focus helix. They were…
Mamiya 55mm SX f/1.4 Lens: Cleaning and Regreasing the Focus Helix
Repair on Mamiya 55mm SX f/1.4 lens. This particular lens, from around 1975, needed the focus helix disassembled, cleaned and re-lubricated. The focus ring…
Mamiya 6x7 120 Roll Back: Broken Wind Lever Bushing
Mamiya 120 6x7 Roll back repair. This back needed a replacement winding base plate due to a broken wind lever bushing. The number five photo shows the…
Mamiya 645 Super: Mirror Stop Replacement Techniques
Today was a day for Mamiya 645 Super mirror stop replacements. The Super is a bit more challenging for mirror stop replacements than the Pro as Mamiya…
Hasselblad 80mm CF Lens: Sticking Shutter, Broken Cocking Shaft
Hasselblad 80mm f/2.8 CF Lens Repair. This lens came into the shop with multiple issues: focus ring goes through infinity by quite a bit, shutter sticking…
Mamiya Sears Auto CS 1000MXB: A Rare NC1000 Variant
Mamiya Sears Auto CS 1000MXB. This is the second lowest production number SLR from Mamiya (2000DTL was the lowest). Produced for Sears in 1978 very few…
Nikkor f/1.1 LTM Lens: Replacing a Damaged Diaphragm Blade
Nikkor f/1.1 LTM Lens Repair. I did this repair a while ago and image quality is not the best but will post it now because it is an interesting lens. When…
Canon FX: Full Service and Prism Replacement
Canon FX repair service. This model, circa 1965, is not as common as the later FT series, uses the FL lenses and does not have through the lens metering…