repair

Hi all. Just wanted to pick your brains on whether anyone knows good places to find parts for older lenses, or even to buy older broken lenses with the purpose to using it for parts. I find some bits on ebay, but not for the lens i'm looking for. The lens i'm interested in is a Canon EF 85mm...

I have a Plaubel Makina 67 that I purchased last autumn, and have loved using. The winding level felt like it might be skipping a few gears, but with two actuations it spaced the film perfectly, so I didn't make too much of it. Fast forward to two weeks ago, and I brought it into a CLA at...

Hi everyone, I have recently gotten a Canon A1, that functions perfectly well apart from the shutter speeds at the lower end of the dial. Timings starting at around half a second, are significantly faster than they should be. For example a 1 second exposure is measuring at around 0.8 seconds...

Hello, I have recently taken up photography and inherited a Nikon D300 with AF-S Nikkor 18-200mm 1.35-5.6 G ED lens. Apologies if my terminology is wrong but what I believe is the bayonet mounting ring is missing. I would like to be able to use a lens hood, but don't think I will be able to...

I've had my Nikon D40 for about 10 years, and about 5-6 years ago problems with the autofocus started to appear. I have two lenses, an 18-55 and a 55-200, and first one went then the other ( I can't remember which went first). It eventually got to the point that the autofocus now never works...

I seem to have a problem with my Nikon D600. I found that the lens mount was stiff in mounting lenses, the camera was not opening up the aperture to full for focusing and my 24mm D and 50mm non-G primes showed an fEE error for the aperture. I bit of investigation showed that the lens mount was...

Hello, Just wanted to give a heads up in case anyone was wondering. My zoom was sticking mainly at 50mm, but also sometimes at ~28mm. If I turned the lens upside down it seemed to be pretty smooth. Anyway I knew that it wasn't ok so thought may as well get her off to Nikon for them to look...

Hello, I am about to sell my faithful Canon 600d but need to attend to it's peeling rubber rubber issues first. The whole lot around the HDMI input is currently loose and flapping about. I have tried double sided tape but had no luck. I'm thinking of modelling cement (for plastic models) but...

Anybody have any idea why this might be happening? I recently procured a Contax RX film camera body, but when the battery is put in (no matter whether turned on or off) the camera starts making a continuous loud whirring sound. Occasionally (sporadically) it will stop and then start again for no...

Does anyone know how to get the lens mount off one of these. All the youtube videos of other Nikon lenses just show removing the 3 or 4 screws in the mount is enough to release it. In this case the mount outer remains firmly attached to the inner section with the aperture lever and electrical...

Where do you get your Elinchrom heads serviced? I've been using the official The Flash Centre in London for many years but have been losing confidence with each yearly service. A few months ago I had a service and they returned a head without the original cap on and instead had used a melted &...