Exakta Varex IIb shutter repair and cleanup
A pictorial post showing how I repaired and cleaned the shutter in my Exakta Varex IIB camera

A pictorial post showing how I repaired and cleaned the shutter in my Exakta Varex IIB camera

A descriptive and pictorial post on removing the shutter from an Exakta Varex IIB camera.

I have several Exakta Exa cameras in my collection but this Exakta Varex IIa is the first of the ‘top flight’ Exakta models I’ve acquired.

This post looks at the process I needed to carry out when I fixed the slow speeds on my Exa 500 camera.

The Exa line of cameras was an entry level 35mm camera made by Ihagee in Dresden, which was started as a model for people who didn’t want to go the the expense of the company’s Exakta range.

Showing how I repaired a sticking first curtain on my Exakta Exa II 35mm SLR camera

The Exakta Exa II was a camera made by the East German Ihagee camera company in the early part of the 1960s.

How strip down and remove the shutter unit from a Topcon Wink 35mm SLR camera

How I fixed the exposure system in my Yashica TL Electro X 35mm SLR camera

This second post in the series covering refurbishment of a vintage Agfa Karat 12 rangefinder camera covers the Compur shutter.

This article covers the refurbishment of the film advance mechanism of the Agfa Karat 12 rangefinder camera.

A look at the Minolta MG 16mm subminiature film camera from 1966