| Repair / Camera Care This is a good place to discuss the care and repair of your photo gear. You can share Do-It-Yourself repair and maintenance, as well as your recommendations for pro repairs. This new forum was created 4/1/07. PLEASE title your thread wisely, so others searching for a certain make of camera or repair person can find your thread easily! |
 |
who best to work on a cle? |
 |
08-26-2007
|
#1
|
|
ɹoʇɐɹǝpoɯ moderator
back alley is offline
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: canada
Age: 62
Posts: 34,647
|
who best to work on a cle?
like the title says, who is the one to send a cle to for all things electronic and a general cla?
joe
__________________
heart soul and a camera
flickr
x-pro1...x-e1...8...14...18...27...35...60
rx100
"learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist"
pablo picasso
...it is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple...
|
|
|
|
|
08-26-2007
|
#2
|
|
genius and moron
sepiareverb is offline
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: NEK
Posts: 7,098
|
Not ever having had one my bet would be Sherry- she knows the M5 inside out and I believe they share some of the same 'technology'. Been watching some of these on ebay lately, but probably won't bite.
|
|
|
|
|
08-26-2007
|
#3
|
|
Head Bartender
CameraQuest is offline
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: over the hills from Malibu
Posts: 3,670
|
many CLE problems end up being the circuit board, and there seems to be no replacements available.
Stephen
|
|
|
|
|
08-26-2007
|
#4
|
|
genius and moron
sepiareverb is offline
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: NEK
Posts: 7,098
|
Will the shutter still work without the electronics?
|
|
|
|
|
08-26-2007
|
#5
|
|
Registered User
Revolucion Artistico is offline
Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 167
|
Sherry told me herself that the CL is her speciality, I think she said she's one of 3 or 4 factory trained techs for it. I would go to her first and she if is as good with the CLE but Stephen is right most cases the board is fried and not fixable. Worth a shot with such a great little camera.
|
|
|
|
|
08-26-2007
|
#6
|
|
ɹoʇɐɹǝpoɯ moderator
back alley is offline
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: canada
Age: 62
Posts: 34,647
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by sepiareverb
Will the shutter still work without the electronics?
|
i don't think so.
__________________
heart soul and a camera
flickr
x-pro1...x-e1...8...14...18...27...35...60
rx100
"learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist"
pablo picasso
...it is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple...
|
|
|
|
|
08-26-2007
|
#7
|
|
Registered User
Keith is offline
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Australia
Posts: 15,438
|
I remember reading on RFF or some other forum a year ago that there was someone in the US fixing CLE's by buying broken cameras and cannabilising what he could from them. He had a limited stock of curcuit boards and saw that problem as eventually causing the total demise of a fine camera .... sorry Joe I can't remember for the life of me who it was! 
__________________
---------------------------
zenfolio
|
|
|
|
|
08-26-2007
|
#8
|
|
ɹoʇɐɹǝpoɯ moderator
back alley is offline
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: canada
Age: 62
Posts: 34,647
|
no worries keith!
tomorrow i will email a few of the bigger names in repairdom and also ask locally.
i've heard differing thoughts on cle repairs, most talk about the circuit boards and others about how many of the parts being basic electronic bits that still can be purchased seperately.
time will tell if this one can be fixed.
joe
__________________
heart soul and a camera
flickr
x-pro1...x-e1...8...14...18...27...35...60
rx100
"learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist"
pablo picasso
...it is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple...
|
|
|
|
|
08-26-2007
|
#9
|
|
Registered User
Flinor is offline
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Age: 74
Posts: 418
|
Joe, this comes out of the recesses of an aged memory and I've never used them, but my rolodex has a note that says possible CLE repairs.
Camera Wiz
169B Pleasant Hill Rd.
Harrisonberg, VA 22801
800-471-8133
__________________
Regards, Gerry
Happiness is a CLE with a collapsible Summicron, loaded with Scala.
|
|
|
|
|
08-26-2007
|
#10
|
|
ɹoʇɐɹǝpoɯ moderator
back alley is offline
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: canada
Age: 62
Posts: 34,647
|
thanks gerry!
joe
__________________
heart soul and a camera
flickr
x-pro1...x-e1...8...14...18...27...35...60
rx100
"learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist"
pablo picasso
...it is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple...
|
|
|
|
|
08-27-2007
|
#11
|
|
Chillin' in Geneva
dreilly is offline
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: The Finger Lakes Region of New York State
Posts: 1,021
|
Somebody on rff mentioned somewhere recently (specific, eh?) having a CLE fixed in Germany by an ex-Minolta tech. The poster offered to give out this techi's info to the poster, who had a cle to fix. Check the archives?
I sent mine to Steve's Camera Service Center in Culver City, CA ( www.stevecamera.com)
Steve is a great guy and is totally willing to work on CLEs. However, my problem was the circuit board and he didn't have any of them. Argh.
__________________
-D is for Doug
http://www.flickr.com/photos/xenar/collections/
No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film. ~Robert Adams, Darkroom & Creative Camera Techniques, May 1995 (I suppose that should now read: "and have a full battery and an empty memory card." Though that sounds so dull.
|
|
|
|
|
08-28-2007
|
#12
|
|
ɹoʇɐɹǝpoɯ moderator
back alley is offline
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: canada
Age: 62
Posts: 34,647
|
i sent an email to both bald mountain and essex camera repair, on monday, but no replies so far.
__________________
heart soul and a camera
flickr
x-pro1...x-e1...8...14...18...27...35...60
rx100
"learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist"
pablo picasso
...it is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
08-28-2007
|
#13
|
|
We're all light!
amateriat is offline
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Age: 57
Posts: 4,638
|
On the off-chance that a few people don't know this:
One broght spot of news on the CLE repair front is in regard to the shutter: the CLE shares the shutter used in Minolta's XG-1 SLR. Since Minolta likely made one hell of lot more of the latter than the former, Heavy CLE users hopefully have availed themselves of at least one XG-1 "donor" body to salt away. (Yes, I know of someone who blew out a CLE shutter – twice – during the late 80s/early 90s). The circuit board, of course, remains a problem, bit I'd be curious to know the failure rate regarding those.
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by sepiareverb
Will the shutter still work without the electronics?
|
I rather doubt it...
- Barrett
__________________
"Print 'em both, kid." - Frank "Cancie" Cancellare, to a UPI courier, after tossing a 20-exposure roll of film to him.
Here, a Gallery.
Last edited by amateriat : 08-28-2007 at 19:39.
|
|
|
|
 |
|
08-28-2007
|
#14
|
|
Shops local
photogdave is offline
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Film-filled Vancouver
Posts: 2,378
|
Joe, did you try Gerry Smith at Kindermann?
__________________
Digital - I just don't care for it.
Leica M4, M6, CL
Voigtlander lenses
Pentax Optio 43 WR
Olympus Stylus Epic
Rolleiflex TLR
Nikon F100, D70
My Gallery
|
|
|
|
|
08-28-2007
|
#15
|
|
ɹoʇɐɹǝpoɯ moderator
back alley is offline
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: canada
Age: 62
Posts: 34,647
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by photogdave
Joe, did you try Gerry Smith at Kindermann?
|
not yet but i was thinking/wondering if he worked on minolta gear.
__________________
heart soul and a camera
flickr
x-pro1...x-e1...8...14...18...27...35...60
rx100
"learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist"
pablo picasso
...it is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple...
|
|
|
|
|
08-29-2007
|
#16
|
|
ɹoʇɐɹǝpoɯ moderator
back alley is offline
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: canada
Age: 62
Posts: 34,647
|
heard from essex and they do work on the cle.
joe
__________________
heart soul and a camera
flickr
x-pro1...x-e1...8...14...18...27...35...60
rx100
"learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist"
pablo picasso
...it is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple...
|
|
|
|
|
09-09-2007
|
#17
|
|
Registered User
Flinor is offline
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Age: 74
Posts: 418
|
Joe, I found another CLE repairer and this is labeled as such:
Terry's Camera Repair
9092 Talbert Ave. #2
Fountain Valley, CA 92708
7114-964-7633
I had a bad experience with Essex this summer even though I know everyone raves about them. After vassuring me on the phone that they could repair two cameras they kept a Voigtlander VF101 for six months and then sent it back with my check with no real explanation. And then they returned my Contax T with the rewind knob from a Nikon mounted on it. If you're at all familiar with the T you know how ludicrous that must have looked. They did return my money and replace the Contax parts but not repair the camera.
I think that they'll try anything once.
__________________
Regards, Gerry
Happiness is a CLE with a collapsible Summicron, loaded with Scala.
|
|
|
|
|
09-09-2007
|
#18
|
|
ɹoʇɐɹǝpoɯ moderator
back alley is offline
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: canada
Age: 62
Posts: 34,647
|
thanks gerry.
the cle is on it's way to me but i haven't done much else as far as research on the repairs. i still want to see what might be available locally and need to ask around the local pro shops as well as ask kinderman.
joe
__________________
heart soul and a camera
flickr
x-pro1...x-e1...8...14...18...27...35...60
rx100
"learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist"
pablo picasso
...it is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple...
|
|
|
|
|
09-09-2007
|
#19
|
|
genius and moron
sepiareverb is offline
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: NEK
Posts: 7,098
|
Joe, you might give Matt at call or email at 'Authorized Camera Repair' They are in PA/USA, but he worked on my F4's when they were in daily use. He may have some further suggestions if he doesn't work on CLE's or you need someone in Canada. (don't know how the customs works on repair stuff)
http://www.authorizedcamerarepair.com/services.html |
|
|
|
|
09-09-2007
|
#20
|
|
ɹoʇɐɹǝpoɯ moderator
back alley is offline
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: canada
Age: 62
Posts: 34,647
|
thanks bob.
i have had gear repaired in the states before without any hassle but it would be nice to keep it in country.
joe
__________________
heart soul and a camera
flickr
x-pro1...x-e1...8...14...18...27...35...60
rx100
"learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist"
pablo picasso
...it is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple...
|
|
|
|
|
09-09-2007
|
#21
|
|
genius and moron
sepiareverb is offline
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: NEK
Posts: 7,098
|
For the occasional extra time in shipping I completely agree- I've had things going up to or coming down from Montreal (2.5 hours by car) take a few days or a few weeks through the mail.
|
|
|
|
|
09-09-2007
|
#22
|
|
ɹoʇɐɹǝpoɯ moderator
back alley is offline
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: canada
Age: 62
Posts: 34,647
|
oh yeah, shipping is usually way quicker in country.
between here and the states, i have had stuff show up in less than a week and others more than a month.
it would be easier if it were more consistent.
__________________
heart soul and a camera
flickr
x-pro1...x-e1...8...14...18...27...35...60
rx100
"learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist"
pablo picasso
...it is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple...
|
|
|
|
|
09-18-2007
|
#23
|
|
ɹoʇɐɹǝpoɯ moderator
back alley is offline
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: canada
Age: 62
Posts: 34,647
|
the cle arrived today. in pretty good shape. shutter speeds are inconsistent and the diodes jumped around a bit.
but then it seems to work ok.
i'm hoping it only needs a cleaning...
joe
__________________
heart soul and a camera
flickr
x-pro1...x-e1...8...14...18...27...35...60
rx100
"learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist"
pablo picasso
...it is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple...
|
|
|
|
|
09-18-2007
|
#24
|
|
Circles of confusion
Joe Brugger is offline
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Pacific Northwest US
Posts: 918
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by back alley
shutter speeds are inconsistent and the diodes jumped around a bit.
joe
|
The old 'dancing diodes' behavior, cured in most cases by cleaning the contacts under the shutter speed dial. Film speeds will seem erratic unless there is a roll of film in the camera, because the meter reads off the film plane. I had mine cleaned and refoamed about 10 years ago for less than US$100. Been fine ever since. Mine was done by Advance Camera in Portland, Ore., local to me. The head tech says it's pretty straightforward. |
|
|
|
|
09-18-2007
|
#25
|
|
Registered User
ferider is offline
Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 10,288
|
Ha ! Finally. Congrats. Now you need a Luigi case for it  |
|
|
|
| Thread Tools |
|
|
| Display Modes |
 Linear Mode
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
All times are GMT -8. The time now is 18:08. |
|
|
