harry_zet

<p>dear all<br>

i just got a unused m1, with firmware 1.0 - i tried to update it, but it doesnt work. i downloaded the updater on my mac (osx 10.11), plugged the camera on, pressed storage - but then the updater says it could not find the camera. any hints what i can do?</p>

 

<p>glenn: thats the one i need!!!!<br>

martin: txs, will check your idea</p>

 

<p>martin, my ballhead looks like yours, except that the top-head can be unscrewed to change from 3/8 to 1/4 - if you have the screw. i dont. the screw looks like the one on the drawing</p>

 

<p>no, i have checked - nothing there </p>

<p>no, the ebay-items are just adapters. what i need is in facht a 3/8 screw, milled down on the other and to 1/4 and with a special kind of bayonet in the middle, that secures the whole screw inside the head of the leitz-head</p>

 

<p>i got a leica table-tripod with the big chrome leica ballhead as a gift, the ballhead is the latest version leitz made, the one with the black-plastic-knob. problem is: the screw to fit a camera on it is missing. anybody out there who knows where to get one? its 3/8 on one and 1/4 on the other end. (see picture)</p><div></div>

<p>the black dots also symbolize with their different size the wide open or the closed aperture</p>

 

<p>thanks all. i now disassembled the lens, only to find out, that a ring inside was broken and blocks the distance ring. i will send it to a voigtlander-repair-expert here in vienna.</p>

<p>a friend of mine gave me his color-skopar 2,5/35 in leica m39 mount, which has a strange problem: the distance ring is sometimes blocked at the 3m position, if you turn it slightly it will get free again and focuses to infinity. however the rangefinder-cam will only move at distances from about 2m to ifinity. if you turn the distance ring, you can feel that something is slightly loose inside the barrel. my question: how do i open the lens? from the back? i have spanner, wrench etc, but would be glad if someone can point me in the right direction, with pictures, drawing a manual or so. any hints?</p>

<p>i do have the tools, but would like to have a manual or the like, which describes how to get to the lenses inside - one has a fairly big hair on it that shows up on the poictures and i need to clean it. any hints where i can find a manual or so on the web?</p>

<p>the best is ballistol, a kind of oil for weapons, made out of herbs. you can even drink it if you have problems with your stomach.</p>

<p>20 degrees is okay, do not pull more</p>

<p>dear all, thanks for your support. after checking the service manual i gave up and ordered a metz 28 flash - it is here now and works better than the built-in flash. case closed :-)</p>

 

<p>dear all, alas (or thanks god) i live in austria. and i really would like to repair it myself, as the cost of professional repair is probably more than a new used d40 and i would like to save some money here.</p>

<p>dear all<br>

the flash on my daughters d40 stopped working - it retracts when needed but does not fire. does anyone know what the culprit could be? i assume the flash-tube is broken. do you have a repair manual and a source where to get a spare part? e*bay is full of spares for the d40, but alas, no flash. any help appreciated</p>

<p>heres a repairmanual for the 35 te - which has the same lens as yours</p><div></div>

<p>for the price of this m4-2 at leicashop you can get a m6, check out willhaben.at</p>

<p>Soeren, beautiful pictures. This is what photography is all about. Your Children and their children will enjoy these pictures, long after we are gone. </p>

<p>you cant</p>

<p>alas its mauthausen concentration camp, 11 kilometers away</p><div></div>

<p>when the lens for my 500c/m stops at the infinity mark, the picture is alas sharp only at about 5 meters. its definitively the lens, as all other lenses i have focus correctly with that specific camera. i know how to hold a screwdriver and have repaired a few cameras myself. i have been told that the focusing-barrel may be out of whack and can be adjusted. does anyone out here have instructions as how to correct it?</p>

<p>a no-brainer: rolleiflexes haver documented the news around the world for more than two decades. the russians took a kiev up with them in the orbit - thats why there are no photos. the rolleiflex 3,5f is among the two, three best 6x6 cameras ever built, nobody was ever sorry buying one.</p>

<p>by all means get a maxwell screen - they are as bright as lifelike, youll love it. just dont call bill, he will talk life in a dead donkey, just send him a mail</p>

<p>to the Pentax-fans here: the Pentax SV is said to have a very good viewfinder: how does it compare to that on a spotmatic? is it really brighter?</p>

<p>here http://books.google.com/books?id=imq0bw0j1hkC&pg=PA77&lpg=PA77&dq=elmarit+90+repair&source=bl&ots=usPOdW4rAU&sig=5AlCCdfbINBuQ5BdRYxQpmntq1Q&hl=de&ei=yhjTSt67F5Gh_AaqsonZAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CCoQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=&f=false</p>