Mamiya C33 Repair

[KingRoach]

Really fits in different sections of this forum but I guess care and repair is best.

I will be outlining everything I did to put this TLR back in commission. I have just posted Part 1 about the body.

http://photographeronbudget.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/mamiya-c33-tlr-repair-part-1.html

Other parts will follow. Let me know what you think. I hope anyone finds this helpful.

[inombrable]

Thanks, so far is looking good. Just take more pictures of the process!!

[KingRoach]

Thanks a lot.

I have added another image with text detailing what the gears are and how it should work.

Next post will be regarding the focusing screen and calibration.

[KingRoach]

Posted Part II of the repair process. Sorry for the late post I'm just busy doing other things.

http://photographeronbudget.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/mamiya-c33-tlr-repair-part-2.html

In this part: focusing screen structure and focus calibration.
Also light-seals replacement.

Let me know what you think.

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[Lloydy]

Excellent tutorial, and a good blog. I guess the setting of the focusing screen will be the same on other Mamiya TLR's. I need to do the light seals on my C3 Pro' so I'll follow your advice as a good starting point.

[KingRoach]

Thanks a lot, Lloydy. Knowing it is helpful encourages me to do more.

I'm actually on a donations-campaign for my tuition (really bad situation, see the link in my signature) and this is why this blog is up. I'm glad it's helping anyway.

Upcoming post - 3rd and last part: the lens!!

[KingRoach]

Part 3 is here:

The LENS! Mamiya Sekor 80mm f2.8 twin lens with a jammed aperture.

http://photographeronbudget.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/mamiya-c33-repair-part-3-sekor-80mm-f28.html

Basically this is a teardown and aperture oil problem. But should be helpful to many. I hope to get lots of feedback I'm working hard to provide useful blog entries to the world.

This concludes the repairs that I did to get this camera/lens pair back in business. I have already shot a film through it.

Was waiting for a second film in my Mamiya 645 to finish so I can process both using the same expensive C41 chemicals, but to my dismay, I found out too late that the film I had shot in the C33 TLR, the Provia 100F, was in fact a slide film requiring E-6 processing, for which I do not have the chemicals.

Any ideas? Time to try cross processing?