Classic Camera Repair Forum

Modifying Camera to Accommodate Silver Oxide Batteries by Jean Colin

Battery choice: Mercury battery was choosed by camera manufacturers because they have a very stable voltage, and this allow a very simple electrical circuit (a galvanometer). In adition, they had…

Mercury Battery By Kar Yan Mak

Miscellaneous

Many cameras from the 60s through 80s use mercury batteries. Why? Because the voltage remains stable even if the battery has been partially drained. As you might have noticed, mercury…

Filter Ring Dent Removing Tool By Henry Taber

Restoration

Bet you have at least one lens with a dent in the filter ring. And probably you’ve been living “filterless” for some time on that lens because the dent removing…

Restoring a Canonet by Kar Yan Mak

Restoration

Light Baffles Replacing light baffles is the easiest kind of restoration/repair. You just take the old ones out and put new ones in. I've written a short description on how…

Kiev 60: hole burned in shutter curtain By Henry Taber

General Repair

This repair technique is not original. Several different versions can be located on the net. This is only my take on the subject. Here we are trying to repair a…

Resetting cameras

General Repair

Cameras function like lined up dominoes. When the first one gets knocked over it knocks over the next...which knocks over the next, etc. Each and every domino must knock over…

How to remove the top cover by Kar Yan Mak

General Repair

This might be the most frequent question I see in the repair forum and emails. So, how DO you remove the top cover? Not many repair books and sites covers…

Tool for Assembling Aperture Blades By John

General Repair

The following information is on a vacuum machine (Bradvac) that I designed to make the assembly of aperature blades easier. I thought that other people who are interested in camera…

Test Equipment By Henry Taber

General Repair

A good set of tools may get that old camera snapping and clicking, but how does one know if it’s truly working CORRECTLY? Granted, getting the knobs and levers to…

My Rangefinders By Kar Yan Mak

Featured Cameras

All the rangefinders you see on this page were manufactured in the 60s through 70s. I'm attracted by rangefinders because of its' compactness and features. Most P&S nowadays are completely…