28 Oct
2012
28 Oct
'12
12:50 p.m.
At 8:25 PM +0100 10/27/12, Tony Duell wrote:
Mine says 'Copyright 1999' in it.
It's certainly in 'Camera Maintenance and
Repair Volume 1', I have just
looked. I haev no idea if it's in any older single-volume version
I should have asked you what the publication date of yours is. It
looks like I was confused, and Vol. 1 was done in '92 and redone '99. I haev all 6 books. Thew one I find most useful is
'Repairng the Great
Collectable Cameras'. Amaszingly, about the time I got it, a local camera
shop started to get in for sale second-hand examples of perhaps 50% of
the cameras in that book. I bought a fair number of them.
The Leica and Nikon books are interesting, but I regard those cameras as
being worth buing the service manuals for.
I should start picking them up and start expanding my library to
include repair information. I also need to start building (or buying what I can't build) the tools I'll need.
The 2 volumes of 'Cmaera Maintenance and Repair' have some designs for
homebrew test isntrumewrns -- autocolimator, various exposure testers,
etc. They can be infuriating for me, becuase I keep thinking 'I could do
a better version of that' and never get round to it. Nor do I build the
simple one form the book, which to be fair is probably good enough. Oh
well...
I'd already planned on starting on camera's I don't care about. I've
found I'm starting to become a dumping ground. I have a Petrie I'll
I know the feeling...
One other thing that Tomosey says and which I entirely agree with is that
uou must always do the best work you can, even on 'junk'. Do not get into
the habit of saying 'Oh, this is worthless, I don't nbeed ot do the job
properly'. You must not learn bad habits!
likely start with. So far the extent of my repair
work has been a
Nikkor Series-E 50mm f/1.8 lens in the late 80's (I was on a ship, it
I have never realyl botheresd with the Series-E lenses. Partly because I
tend to avoid stuff build down to a price and partly becasue the lack the
coupling form for non-AI meters. Yes, I know it can often be added, bnt..
-tony