ZeissIkonRolleiRepair.com

Camera types I can service:

Rolleiflex: All TLRs except 3.5F1, T (why, you ask?), and Majic

Zeiss Ikon: All Ikoflex Cameras, except the Favorit; all Ikonta, All Super Ikonta; all other Zeiss Folding cameras; Contax IIa, IIIa; All View, Field and compact 127 film cameras

Range Finder Cameras With Screw Mount Lenses:Including Leica SM, Nikon, Canon. Sorry no M mount service.

View cameras: All shutters including Betax, Compound, Copal, Compur, Kodak, Prontor, Seikosha, and wollensak, and many more, no matter how old.

Press Cameras:

Speed Graphic, Crown Graphic

Bush Pressman, Linhoff, Plaubel

Mamiya.

Cameras I do not work on: Rolleiflex 3.5F1, Yashica products, Ikoflex Favorit, Most SLRs, such as Nikon F, Pentax K-1000, Minolta, and Canon. Fixed lens 35mm range finder cameras made in Japan! Such as the Anscoset, Minolta A-5, Olympus, Ricoh-500...Also, I do not work on slide projectors.

Hello,

My depression/anxiety has greatly improved and I am now up and about, most days. There are still bad days, but they are much more infrequent, and most days I only sleep 7-8 hours.

I am taking in new repairs, again, but I am being a bit more selective about them. Things that I do not like to work on, I am not taking on (in). In the past I just quoted a much larger price, and did them begrudgingly. Now I'm not doing them at all.

I want to thank all that have sent me well wishes and messages of sympathy and support. Thank you very much, your kindness has been a major contributing factor to my continuing recovery. For those that I have angered, I want to again take this opportunity to apologize for not providing you good service. Sane Mark was reasonable to deal with, mentally ill Mark not at all...

Thanks to all my customers, I look forward to providing for you the highest quality services in the future.

CLA, is to clean lubricate and adjust. This is the bread and butter of camera repairs. I clean with Coleman fuel (white gas) in a high power ultrasonic cleaner.

I lubricate using high quality modern lubricants, Oil, Grease, and MoS2 dry lubricant. I adjust the old fashioned way; bend tweak, file, punch and stake. This service can be done to any camera system, such as: The film transport, focus, shutter, or even the film back latch. To do this I completely dissasemble the camera system in question, This may take longer, but it insures that every moving part is clean and lubricated, ready for the next 50 years of use.

On Every Camera, On every camera I work on, I do things that others charge for, for free. I set both lenses to proper infinity, using a National Brand Collimator. One big guy on the west coast advertises Collumation of the lenses at a hefty fee (200 dollars, but don't quote me on that, it is from memory). I also clean the lenses inside and out, as needed. Send me a nice clean lens, only the outside surfaces get cleaned, if it is diry then it gets cleaned. I also level every lens board, shimmed front to back and side to side, and I make sure the focus is not binding at one end or the other. What I strive to do, and mostly succeed at is, setting the camera up, to be a good user camera. This is charged by other at hundreds of dollars, or even thousands from one guy in Europe. I want your camera to leave me in the best possible working order I can make it. In this way you can take pictures with it, and get the outstanding results you expect.

Mirror Replacement, The old mirror is replaced with a brand new mirror, which is of the same thickness and fits like new. This will greatly improve brightness of the focus screen.

Bright Screens, I remove your old focus glass and install a new Fresnel type bright screen, which you provide. This will improve the edge brightness but will also reduce the sharpness of the screen. See my blog post abou this.

Not a CLA--A Rebuild, It bears mention that some cameras are in such a state of neglect, that they require a complete dissasembly, cleaning, and lubricating, along with replacing any worn parts. you may CLA a particualar system, but this is really what would be called a rebuild. Cameras sent in this condition, and requiring a complete rebuild will be warranted based on condition. Personally I call cameras that need this much work parts, but you the customer, make the final call and what you would like done.

Here is What Several Customers are Saying:

From the Rolleiusers Group on Yahoo:

A couple of months ago I queried the group regarding a resource for a long long overdue CLA for my Rolleicord III which I bought very used about 25 years ago and which was getting stiff to adjust and whose viewfinder was getting too dark to see through. I sifted through the suggestions and chose Mark Hansen's Classic Camera Repair. He gave me an honest estimate, and honest TIME estimate (6-8 weeks) and I sent him the camera. It came back at the price range he quoted, in 7 weeks, and it is clean and once again USABLE. The viewfinder is bright, the shutter speeds adjust smoothly as does the f-stop. He provided a four page report on what was done and the test results for the shutter speeds. I am very satisfied and would recommend him. His website is ZeissIkonRolleiRepair.com. The camera is now loaded with HP5 and I have a roll of Ektar 100 and Fomapan 100 in reserve for the long weekend.

IB of Colorado says:

"Mark has done some excellent work for me! One of my cameras, the Kodak Retina IIIc, was in such poor shape, and seemed so much beyond repair that I hesitated to attempt any repairs on it. I contemplated turning it into a non-functioning conversation piece for the mantelpiece, or junking it altogether. Nevertheless, I sent it to Mark for his opinion, and he said he could restore it to working condition for a fee which I thought was reasonable. I agreed to have him do it, and yesterday the restored camera arrived. I was simply astounded at the way the camera now functions! There is not even a remote resemblance to the totally non-functional junker I sent him just a couple of weeks ago! The film advance is now better than on a new Retina IIIc (should there be one in existence), the shutter speeds are superbly accurate (well within the manufacturer's recommended tolerances), and after Mark's collimating and adjusting the infinity focus and the rangefinder, the Xenon lens, which is now sparklingly clean, resolves at the 120 line pairs per mm range! I will probably not sell this camera for a while, and use it for a few years. I am confident that it will function properly way past the time when I will need to sell it, or pass it on to one of my heirs. Mark's workmanship is simply the best, and I won't hesitate to recommend him to anyone!' "

Mark Says:

This camera had been worked on by an amateur. This so-called repair person had slathered grease right on over dirt, and old dried grease--They skipped the C, did the L, and did not know how to do the A. I just don't know how these people call themselves professionals.

Here is What D.R. is saying about my services:

"Mark's the rarest of camera technicians; he totally respects his customers, never looks down upon their ignorance of what really happens inside those magical boxes, is never high and mighty. He's totally enthusiastic about the cameras he works on (a wide range, from inexpensive Ricohflexes to the most expensive Rolleiflexes), has a lot of inside and down-to-earth knowledge about the various strengths and weaknesses of each model, and has always been willing to share his opinions. When I sent a camera to him that I tried to repair myself but flubbed, he didn't snicker or say "you should have left it to the experts", he actually explained what I did wrong (and made it right). At the same time, he helped me through a fairly complex repair of my beloved Flexaret VII through some extensive email instructions.That made him no money but helped me restore a personal treasure--he did totally gain my admiration, respect and appreciation. I'd trust Mark with any camera repair within his repertoire, but most of all I'd trust him to be fair, up front, thorough and thoroughly decent."

Mark Says:

I have had many customers that have attemped to do there own repairs and got into the repair, and were then overwelmed. I have no problem helping people with these repair problems, and will happily take a look at the camera, if needed.