Bought a Makina 67!

[Calzone]

Sorry to hear about your disappointment. Nippon Camera Clinic is the only place I know that will repair a Plaubel with a broken meter. The cost is expensive, but I know they do good work because of other cameras they have repaired for me.

For a medium format SLR I went for a Pentax 67II. It has awesome metering with the AE finder. Spot, center weighted, and 6 segment matrix metering, plus aperture priority that I found to be deadly accurate.

Cal

[Pete B]

I thought I'd read somewhere that Plaubel are still servicing them.
Pete

[Calzone]

Originally Posted by Pete B

I thought I'd read somewhere that Plaubel are still servicing them.
Pete

I read that too pretty recently, but Nippon Photo Clinic is in NYC and its the place to get service locally in the U.S.

Cal

[bob338]

Plaubel in Germany is still servicing them. I saw an ad recently for a 670 that had a very recently dated service invoice with it.
They were pretty expensive, but probably no more than Nippon Camera.

[1joel1]

I've never had a meter issue with all the Plaubels I've owned over the last 25ish years. Try cleaning the contacts and bending the prongs to guarantee that contact is being made. My 67W came from a seller who claimed the meter didn't work. For the price, I bought it and expected to use a handheld meter. I pushed on the cover and played with it and it was intermittent. Then, I did as above and it works perfectly. Lucky, perhaps, but why not check it out.

Joel

[sinetsin]

Yes, plaubel in Germany still working, and they do it pretty well!
I sent mine few months ago, took like three months as my makina 67 needed a new viewfinder (!!)
They did a great work on it ,and when i recieved seem a new camera.

[dreilly]

Originally Posted by Calzone

Sorry to hear about your disappointment. Nippon Camera Clinic is the only place I know that will repair a Plaubel with a broken meter. The cost is expensive, but I know they do good work because of other cameras they have repaired for me.
Cal

Cal,
As I wrote, Nippon told me they won't fix the meter and a CLA would cost $600. (Actually, they said $600 or $700). If someone has information more recent than two days ago that modifies this, please speak up. Otherwise, I suggest calling ahead before shipping your Makina to them.

I wrote to plaubel in Germany and have not received a response.

I did make sure the contacts were...making contact, and still a no go. No big deal, you win some you lose some.

[stompyq]

Well on a positive note the 80mm f2 on the Noritta is supposed to be very good. Looking forward to some images

[dreilly]

Me too! To my eye medium format is where film really has the edge over digital (at least the digital most of us can actually afford). And sure the D800 might be getting to a point where the resolution beats medium format, but it's still a 35mm frame, still 35mm depth of field, etc.

[Calzone]

Originally Posted by dreilly

Cal,
As I wrote, Nippon told me they won't fix the meter and a CLA would cost $600. (Actually, they said $600 or $700). If someone has information more recent than two days ago that modifies this, please speak up. Otherwise, I suggest calling ahead before shipping your Makina to them.

I wrote to plaubel in Germany and have not received a response.

I did make sure the contacts were...making contact, and still a no go. No big deal, you win some you lose some.

Ouch. That's crazy expensive.

Plus one on MF and film, especially in B&W.

Cal