Dear everyone watching this: This is a cosmetic repair. The camera was in awful condition when they started working on it and it ended up looking very good, but they made a few mistakes that in the long run will make the camera not work properly. The biggest one is the amount of lubrication on the aperture and shutter mechanism, they put about 20 times the amount needed. It's ok since this is pretty much a toy camera (despite the fact that the top plate looks kind of like a good 60s camera), but if you own a camera that's actually good and needs repair *this is not the way to do it.* Take it to someone who actually restores cameras as a daily job, this is called a CLA and most service shops do it. In this case this was an extreme CLA, but a CLA nonetheless. Good video tho, I'm not hating on it :)
Thanks for your positive reviews. I admit that the things I do are not really good. I'm not a true CLA, but I'll try to do better. By the way, the lubricant here is a premium Lithium lubricant, which does not harden over time. Sorry about my English. Thank you againt!!
@@BeeBetu haha you have the stuff to be amazing at restoring cameras if you keep working at it, no doubt about that! The issue with lubricant in shutters is that even a slight amount ends up getting everywhere in the lens, it gets on the aperture blades and then they stick. Im guessing this camera doesn't have that many shutter speeds so it probably doesn't matter that much, but on cameras with shutter speeds under 1/60 that's an issue. Eventually they don't close fully at any speed. But like I said, no doubt you are capable of being amazing at this so keep up the good work!
@@Shrek_Has_Covid19 - Hmm... Well yeah i guess you could get rid of mud like that - oh no, he's spraying the display? Well maybe it can handle it - wait dafuq is he doing to that poor lens - *OMG THE SENSOR LOL WTF*
You got that painted dirt and corrosion off pretty well. All my cameras that are rusty like that are in the mechanisms too. Not just inside the film bay. So with some dish soap and spray paint, I can get mine in working order? Maybe I should try that on my old ford. Who knew dish soap removes rust and corrosion and restores paint?
Dude, this is a fake video, it's rusty on the outside but unchanged on the inside, I'm 1000% sure they made it deliberately using chemical means, the inside is perfect but the outer shell looks like it's been soaked in water for a hundred years , I have repaired and owned about 30 Film cameras, I am sure this is a fake video, do not follow the method in the video to repair your camera
Dude, this is a fake video, it's rusty on the outside but unchanged on the inside, I'm 1000% sure they made it deliberately using chemical means, the inside is perfect but the outer shell looks like it's been soaked in water for a hundred years , I have repaired and owned about 30 Film cameras, I am sure this is a fake video, do not follow the method in the video to repair your camera
Awesome!!! I might have missed this or a new gasket wasn't inserted but I've always wondered where one would get that rear door seal. Those never lasted long on these 35mm cameras. thanks for video!
I Don’t care for all the comments and whether the cameras is functioning or not it was a beautiful job of restoration and this will not work as a camera as so many people are saying who cares the restoration The painstaking work done it’s self is a piece of art.
Agreed. If you've ever spent any time at all cleaning or restoring items with significant corrosion; this is not at all what it looks like. And these are not the kind of results you can expect. The top and lens components looked to be covered in "goo" to roughly simulate rust or brass corrosion. That it all wiped off without pitting to reveal a more or less perfect metal surface underneath; is proof positive that this video is a scam.
A lot of these restorations are 85% fake. All old zippo-type restorations look like they've been jammed with potting soil. Same with this. Looks like it was smeared with chocolate sauce.
Damn you noticed that as well? It looks like he just painted it to make it look dirty and old. If it looked like that on the outside and inside where the film goes, then how in the hell are all the mechanisms still intact and free? I have cameras that look like this for reals and they’re pretty much toast as everything is frozen up.
я не верил до конца что ЭТО можно заставить работать.. автору - ты Золотые Руки. Лайк однозначно. p.s. Сам восстанавливаю старые объективы, но тут - уровень Бог
Видос снят явно для тех кто любит посмотреть на чудо.Кто занимался этим реально, поймет,что камеру предварительно приукрасили,в ковычках говоря.При внешнем состоянии,внутри должно быть на много хуже.У него и шестерёнки крутятся,и винтики без проблем откручиваются .Видос для просмотров из любопытства.
Nice video to watch, although I had some concerns about the work as I went along. My main question was why bother restoring a camera with a simple meniscus lens, leaf shutter and tiny aperture? It’s never going to take great photos so why go to all that effort?
Well I think this is an excellent restoration. You know what you are doing with the screws, parts and springs. Yes, the amount of lubricant is way too generous, it can spread and spill. The 50mm lens is of course awful and very likely the back focus (distance from the lens to the film plane) is off, hence the rather soft focus, but you were lucky that there were no missing, broken, highly corroded or worn parts. Anyway: always love watching people restoring or modifying these old all-mechanical cameras (motion picture or still). Great stuff!
I have this Meikai EL in 70's, My first camera, I use it for B & W only, because I can not affort color, very cheap but useful, most of my B & W are taken by this.
Dear everyone watching this:
This is a cosmetic repair. The camera was in awful condition when they started working on it and it ended up looking very good, but they made a few mistakes that in the long run will make the camera not work properly. The biggest one is the amount of lubrication on the aperture and shutter mechanism, they put about 20 times the amount needed.
It's ok since this is pretty much a toy camera (despite the fact that the top plate looks kind of like a good 60s camera), but if you own a camera that's actually good and needs repair *this is not the way to do it.* Take it to someone who actually restores cameras as a daily job, this is called a CLA and most service shops do it. In this case this was an extreme CLA, but a CLA nonetheless.
Good video tho, I'm not hating on it :)
Thanks for your positive reviews. I admit that the things I do are not really good. I'm not a true CLA, but I'll try to do better.
By the way, the lubricant here is a premium Lithium lubricant, which does not harden over time.
Sorry about my English. Thank you againt!!
@@BeeBetu haha you have the stuff to be amazing at restoring cameras if you keep working at it, no doubt about that!
The issue with lubricant in shutters is that even a slight amount ends up getting everywhere in the lens, it gets on the aperture blades and then they stick. Im guessing this camera doesn't have that many shutter speeds so it probably doesn't matter that much, but on cameras with shutter speeds under 1/60 that's an issue. Eventually they don't close fully at any speed.
But like I said, no doubt you are capable of being amazing at this so keep up the good work!
JeffDvrx I admire you and your understanding!! 😉😉😉
if anyone thinks this video is bad, just show them this one: th-cam.com/video/yYCR7rAyNic/w-d-xo.html
@@Shrek_Has_Covid19
- Hmm... Well yeah i guess you could get rid of mud like that
- oh no, he's spraying the display? Well maybe it can handle it
- wait dafuq is he doing to that poor lens
- *OMG THE SENSOR LOL WTF*
lovely painted on dirt effect there
You noticed that too? The fingerprints in the red "rust" are a nice touch.
You got that painted dirt and corrosion off pretty well. All my cameras that are rusty like that are in the mechanisms too. Not just inside the film bay. So with some dish soap and spray paint, I can get mine in working order? Maybe I should try that on my old ford. Who knew dish soap removes rust and corrosion and restores paint?
Please do not do anything this guy did
Dude, this is a fake video, it's rusty on the outside but unchanged on the inside, I'm 1000% sure they made it deliberately using chemical means, the inside is perfect but the outer shell looks like it's been soaked in water for a hundred years , I have repaired and owned about 30 Film cameras, I am sure this is a fake video, do not follow the method in the video to repair your camera
I have to salut these restorers simply for remembering where everything goes when re-assembling the project. No matter what it be !
He filmed the disassembly so doesn't have to remember....
Yup, I'm with you there.
Yep. My feelings exactly.
There's service manuals
Súper...!!..Excelente....de vuelta a la vida ...ji ji ji ji.... Saludossss
What Language is it??
Love seeing old camera repair!!!
It's fake
Didn’t think it was possible! You have amazing skills!
It's fake... the camera at the end, is this same camera before he dirtied it up on purpose and reasembled it...
Dude, this is a fake video, it's rusty on the outside but unchanged on the inside, I'm 1000% sure they made it deliberately using chemical means, the inside is perfect but the outer shell looks like it's been soaked in water for a hundred years , I have repaired and owned about 30 Film cameras, I am sure this is a fake video, do not follow the method in the video to repair your camera
wonderful photos at the end. Obviously the ones of your daughter make the project worth doing for yourself!
Beautifully Restored.
Good job. Precise work
Thanks for the entertainment, that was delightful to watch. Have a great day, kind regards from Germany!
This was extremely satisfying to watch.
Awesome video and restoration
Wow. Second life! Great job, great pics. Very live it. Thank you.
Real or not, you watch Avatar and never question it's authenticity. This is relaxing and wonderful to watch. Thank you.
Avatar doesn't present its characters as real...
Unless soap can remove rust like it was chocolate powder over plastic, it is false.
Amazing working congratulations!
Fantastic video.
You deserve a Nobel Prize, sir. Respect.
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Amazing work, almost as complex as a watch
Brilliant, fascinating, joyful. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
I am mesmerized. It was like hypnotic therapy watching this
Wow! Beautiful work of art.
Wow man. Beautiful job. Nice Fuji homage.
very good mate great job a new camera again
Wow all that and not a single word was said! Wow!! 👍😲
It's nice to have an old camera getting restored, for the first time ever.
From the removal and cleaning of every little detail to the replacement of heavily damaged parts, it is all done meticulously and precisely 😀
Tell you WHAT!! "THAT WAS A GREAT JOB"!!!
that is just astonishing!
Beautiful, from start to finish!
Beautiful.
It's a joy to see a camera being healed like this for a new life
It's fake rust dude
@@lucab1733 I know
Good vídeo
Awesome!!! I might have missed this or a new gasket wasn't inserted but I've always wondered where one would get that rear door seal. Those never lasted long on these 35mm cameras. thanks for video!
Love Acros. Amazing video
Phew!!! While you were fixing the lens i had an anxiety attack ... 😄😄😄👍👍
👌🏻I restored a yashica linx and it’s nice to see more people who recover this pieces of history ✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻
My father has one, it's stopped working but is utterly beautiful!
Well!!! Amazing video
Good job
Das ist doch mal fein gemacht!
What Language is it??
@@radilfavaia6217 German!
I Don’t care for all the comments and whether the cameras is functioning or not it was a beautiful job of restoration and this will not work as a camera as so many people are saying who cares the restoration The painstaking work done it’s self is a piece of art.
Incredible. Kudos to you.
Thank you. So cool to se the pics you took with it. Keep up the great work
Say wha? There is no way that you can save that...wow. I guess you can! Great work!
Nice restoration! Another film camera on field, great job!
Mate this film camera will not be out on any field he destroyed the lens and from that much grease it will jam within a few weeks 😊
Well done! I would have thought the camera was a write-off.
This is a great restoration.
Greaaaaaaaat
greetings to you from Egypt
Fantastic work! Honorable!!
Amazing work man!! 🙌✨
Omg that was so satisfying to watch!!!!!
awesone! the pictures are amazing!
Good video keep making😉
The encrustacean of gunk does indeed look deliberately applied. Play the video in reverse to see how it was done.
Agreed. If you've ever spent any time at all cleaning or restoring items with significant corrosion; this is not at all what it looks like. And these are not the kind of results you can expect. The top and lens components looked to be covered in "goo" to roughly simulate rust or brass corrosion. That it all wiped off without pitting to reveal a more or less perfect metal surface underneath; is proof positive that this video is a scam.
exactly, as it touched water it released colours immediately and came of with no effort.
Yes, he does a bad fake aging before the “repair”! 🤣
A lot of these restorations are 85% fake. All old zippo-type restorations look like they've been jammed with potting soil. Same with this. Looks like it was smeared with chocolate sauce.
Damn you noticed that as well? It looks like he just painted it to make it look dirty and old. If it looked like that on the outside and inside where the film goes, then how in the hell are all the mechanisms still intact and free? I have cameras that look like this for reals and they’re pretty much toast as everything is frozen up.
я не верил до конца что ЭТО можно заставить работать.. автору - ты Золотые Руки. Лайк однозначно. p.s. Сам восстанавливаю старые объективы, но тут - уровень Бог
Well done you have great skills and patience.
Great job.
Very very nice work 👌👍
Incredible 😃
you professional restoration 👏
love from morrocco
What a jop verry interesting 👍
Really really good!
Wow!! very good~!!!
Such a great job. 👍
Such a pleasure you did not add a fucking music track!! THANK YOU!
Hi Guys Wow That Was Great Impressed Iv Never Done A Retro Camera Before Keep It Up Stay Safe All Best M. England.
BRAVO
Very good
Excellent restoration!
Видос снят явно для тех кто любит посмотреть на чудо.Кто занимался этим реально, поймет,что камеру предварительно приукрасили,в ковычках говоря.При внешнем состоянии,внутри должно быть на много хуже.У него и шестерёнки крутятся,и винтики без проблем откручиваются .Видос для просмотров из любопытства.
так он еще и шестеренки со ржавчиной обратно засунул th-cam.com/video/7Cjq6Q5bqiI/w-d-xo.html
Полностью с Вами согласен!
The patients of this guy....🤩🤩🤩
Great job!!
Masterful accomplishment! I appluad the detail, patience, and precise workmanship! BRAVO!
That is both incredible & remarkable, nice work.
Great work
Thank you for your video
Greetings you and your beautiful girl from France
SPECTACULAR!
Nice video to watch, although I had some concerns about the work as I went along.
My main question was why bother restoring a camera with a simple meniscus lens, leaf shutter and tiny aperture? It’s never going to take great photos so why go to all that effort?
Amazing!!!
I need more old camera repair. This just doesn't exist like this ....well not that I know of.
Well I think this is an excellent restoration. You know what you are doing with the screws, parts and springs. Yes, the amount of lubricant is way too generous, it can spread and spill. The 50mm lens is of course awful and very likely the back focus (distance from the lens to the film plane) is off, hence the rather soft focus, but you were lucky that there were no missing, broken, highly corroded or worn parts. Anyway: always love watching people restoring or modifying these old all-mechanical cameras (motion picture or still). Great stuff!
Treasure thing✨❤️
Don't apologise for your English. It's far, far, better than I can speak in any other language.
Great job, enjoying to watch. 👍
Anyway what amazing work you did! Congratulations!
東郷堂のメイカイ35か!綺麗に写りますよ!良いカメラです。
Wonderful ❤️
I have this Meikai EL in 70's, My first camera, I use it for B & W only, because I can not affort color, very cheap but useful, most of my B & W are taken by this.
Very fine restoration. 👍
Wow, that's amazing
Its so satisfying. Make more videos like this!
Great job buddy 👍
AMAZING. You are amazing.
a museum quality restoration .
What you ended with is amazing, considering how bad the camera was. Great job, new subscriber.
This was really great
I hope you to keep adding more other videos, subscribed
Thank you so much!
Beautiful. Very calming.
Greetings from Vienna.
This sound is pleasing to the ear
wow actually impressive
Amazing work .. I'm so impressed .. You gave that old and rusty camera a second life !!
Greetings from France
Oui bonjour
I have a lot of old cameras.. many of them need repair.. none of them look like they were soaked in mud, you have a sweet looking daughter.
Marvelous! Thank you...