10 Jun
2010
10 Jun
'10
12:21 p.m.
This thread is really going off the rails, isn't it? And to think it=20
started by me asking if anyone was going to VCF!
That tread went off the rails (power rails?) weeks ago :-)
They are not
hard to work on (one thing I have discovered when it comes
to repairing cameras is that the mroe expensive cameeras have more part=
s,
but they are better made and actually easier to
work on. I would much
rather repair a Leica than a Kodak.).
I've done rebuild work on cheap digital compact cameras. I bought a=20 Or where you just want to build a stereo camera for as
little money as=20
possible... Ahem.
Finding either the sterao brackets for the Werra (I several of those
interesting cameras) or one of the bewm-splitter type of lenese for one
of my 35mm cameras is something I dream of doing one day...
And for a lot less in charity chops. And they
really are easy to take
apart and rebuild..
I must be looking in the wrong charity shops. The ones around here won't=20
take anything other than clothing and books, if it takes a battery or=20
has a mains lead then it's banned. Most of the OM-series stuff is just as easily
repairable -- 95% of the=20
The OM1, sure (it's mechancially timed IIRC), but I wouldn't want to have
to fix the elctronics in an OM10 or similar.
time it's the light seals that go (they're
easily replaced) but when=20
something jams, you usually only have to clean out the (small amount of)=20
grease, relubricate the parts and put it back together again.
IIRC, the winding clutch in the OM series is a weak point...
Some cameras really are evil, though. I had a 35mm compact a few years=20
ago (the typical all-plastic POS), which had some "issues". The worst of=20
You have clearly never had to work on Eumig cine cameras. Suffice it to
say that the number of operations needed to extract the mechanism from
the case is excessive. Give me a Bolex any day...
-tony