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Other Repair Guides

These repair guides cover things like basic troubleshooting and optical repairs that apply to any brand of equipment.

They are a helpful "first step" when beginning the repair of a camera or lens. Read these first before going on to the manufacturer's service manual or one of the other repair articles or tutorials that we have on Learn Camera Repair.

 

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For the first five years that we operated this site, we were able to offer all of these manuals as free downloads. The site has gotten so large and popular that we are exceeding the limits of bandwidth and storage imposed by our web host. Please don't share these files; if we do not bring in enough revenue to pay to keep the site online, we will be forced to shut the site down. We've set the price low enough that it won't burden those who want to learn to repair cameras, while hopefully bringing in enough each month to keep the site open. We are not trying to make a profit from this.

 

 

Basic Photographic Circuits Article

 

Article from Camera Craftsman
Camera Body Repairs

 

National Camera Repair Guide
Chemical Removal of Optical Coatings

 

From the U.S. Air Force Weapons Laboratory
Cosmetic Refinishing of Camera Exteriors

 

From The National Camera Repair School
Fundamental Optics For Repair Technicians

 

Basic Guide To Optical Design and Repair From Vivitar
Graphical Ray Tracing

 

From Edmund Scientific
Lens Mount Register Distances

 

Register distances for many camera systems
Repair Broken Flex Cables Tutorial

 

Tutorial by Philippe Raybaudi
Selenium Cells

 

Book by Thomas W. Benson
Servicing Electronic Flash

 

How to repair electronic flashes by Larry Lyells
Servicing Lens Mechanisms

 

Basic service guide for lenses
Shutter Speed Tolerances Tables

 

Compiled by Luka Zidarič
Single Lens Reflex Camera Repair Guide

 

National Camera Repair Guide
Testing Flash Syncronization

 

National Camera Repair Guide
The Camera Repairman

 

National Camera Repair Guide
The Mercury Battery Problem

 

Adapting cameras that used mercury batteries to use modern batteries
Troubleshooting Electronic Flash

 

How to diagnose and repair electronic flash problems
Troubleshooting Electronic Shutters

 

How to diagnose the cause of electronic shutter malfunctions
Zoom Lens Focus Adjustment

 

Step-by-step instructions for adjusting zoom lens infinity focus

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