Ansco Regent with Compur MXV

I took apart the Compur MXV shutter that is used on Ansco Regent. It had grease all over the shutter.
My repair manual said not to work on the aperture leaves. They were right. It had 11 aperture leaves. They are just too many but not as many as Canon Serenar lens I worked on one time. That one had 13 leaves and took me half a day to put them back. I will never work on the Serenar lens again :) 11 leaves on this Compur shutter was not so bad. The trouble was the grease on the slow speeds and the self timer. I had degreased them many times but failed to clean them. I gave up fixing on this camera.

I know one repair place told me they will remove the aperture leaves on the shutters with too many aperture leaves. I will not tell you which repair shop :) You have to make sure you have to count how many leaves are on your shutter and when it comes back :)

Pentacon 50mm f1.8 Screw Mount Lens

Pentacon 50mm f1.8 was used on Praktica MTL series of SLR cameras. I used to repair these cameras for a repair shop long time ago.
MTL's weak spot was the shutter wind ribbon and the plastic meter gears used for the meter movement.
The shutter ribbon has adjustment but even if you set at shortest length, the shutter still did not charge. They used to supply different lengths of this charge ribbon ( made of spring metal.)
I did not like to work on these models as they usually stopped working right after the repair was done and usually I had to re-work on the camera at least two times.
The lens, however, was excellent.

UV Topcor 58mm f2.0 Aperture Leaves Cleaning

UV Topcor 58mm f2.0 was made by Tokyo Kogaku for its Topcon Uni and Auto 100  SLR cameras.
Topcon Uni and Auto 100 has leaf shutter and its main selling point at that time was that you can use the flash all the way up to 1/500 seconds. It had different interchangeable lenses.
You can buy this camera cheap now but most of them are broken. the weak point was the shutter cocking cam post. It break off and shutter no longer winds. Also, the prism goes black from the deteriorated sponge used in the prism. I have made a downloadable pdf instruction manual on how to do aperture cleaning on this lens.

 
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Konica Auto S2 Instruction Manual

Konica Auto S2 Instruction Manual Updated

• Updated version of the Konica Auto S2 instruction manual (how to use the camera) in English.
• 12 pages PDF file can be downloaded from here for $5.
• New color photos with the original illustrations.

Konica Auto S2 instruction manual.
Updated using new photos.
Pdf 12 pages download.

Instruction Manual for Canon Canonet QL17/QL19/QL19

12 pages color instruction manual on how to
use Canon Canonet QL17, 19, and 25 cameras.

This is not a copy of the factory instruction manual but I wrote
it myself.

It is $5.00 pdf download. The web site only accepts PayPal.

How to remove Canon QL17/QL19/QL25 Top Cover / Infinity Adjustment

I have several request for how to take apart the cameras.  I decided to write how to do simple repairs manual to make some money :)


If the infinity focus on your Canon QL17, QL19,or QL25, is off and asked a repair shop about it and was told that since the camera was not Leica or Nikon SP, you can not get
perfect focus. That is not true. Sure expensive rangefinder are bright and precise but you can try two simple adjustment to get the best focus out of your camera.

This will only work on the full size Canonet QL series and not for smaller QL17 GIII.

It is $5 pdf download. I wrote step by step direction on how to remove the top cover and do infinity focus adjustment.

It accepts PayPal only ( I don't know why.)

My computer is toasted

My main desktop computer broke. Two capacitors near the CPU bulged at the top. I replaced them but did not solve the problem instead it went worse. The CPU was no longer working and the power was also not going to the motherboard. I ended buying the same motherboard and CPU from eBay and used the power supply from the other case I kept. It is now running so I can update on my camera repairs in a day or two.