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Joined: 12 Dec 2022 Posts: 4
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Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2022 2:24 am Post subject: Lens repair help |
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Well it looks like I spoke too soon. The 135mm Graflex Optar Wollensak lens on my 1950 Pacemaker has decided to show its age. The shutter fires off, but it does not change speeds when I cycle through the speed settings, firing off at the same fast speed regardless of the setting. Also the T setting was working yesterday but today it was staying open intermittently and now does not stay open at all.
Thanks to this forum I downloaded the service manual for this, but it appears to be a pretty daunting task to repair this. I read that some of the parts for this lens are no longer available and its a shot in the dark ( no pun intended) that this may or not be fixable?
Any thoughts?
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Dan Fromm
Joined: 14 May 2001 Posts: 2120 Location: New Jersey
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Joined: 12 Dec 2022 Posts: 4
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Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2022 3:02 am Post subject: |
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Thanks bunch for the links. This helps to know that there is someone out there that can do this kind of work. |
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offhand35
Joined: 05 Mar 2023 Posts: 1 Location: Connecticut, USA
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Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2023 12:17 pm Post subject: Press Camera Shutter Repairs |
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I have found Mark Hansen at http://www.zeissikonrolleirepair.com/index.html to be excellent for shutter service & repairs. He likes working on Zeiss Ikons and Rollei's, but his real love is older leaf shutters. From his website:
View cameras: All shutters including Betax, Compound, Copal, Compur, Kodak, Prontor, Seikosha, and wollensak, and many more, no matter how old.
Press Cameras:
Speed Graphic, Crown Graphic
Bush Pressman, Linhoff, Plaubel
Mamiya.
NOTE that he is backlogged and turnaaround is approx. 6 weeks. |
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