Thank you so very much for coming over, and checking my workshop, trusting me with your Leica and letting me service the unit, it was so nice meting and talking to you, great conversation! Hope to have you back in Sydney in the future.
Video @ 18:00 "It's not bad - they're not precision shutters - close enough" - Humm, bless her little heart, I'm very happy to see a young person learning this specialized profession. Now, I'm a fairly well known technician in the U S A. Her Kyoritsu tester indicated very accurate 500th readings with this M6, BUT, one can ALSO achieve a just as accurate 1,000th ! - Many cameras including the Leica M cameras, have a separate adjusting 'lobe' that allows for WELL within specification 1,000th accuracy. Among other things, she also misspoke when she addressed elevating the speed "tighten the curtains" 16:26 - Actually, after proper lubrication, balancing both curtain tensions is next, THEN the 'Slit-Width' properly adjusts the high speeds, not the tensioning... Video @ 26:04 "maybe by ONE stop" - Wow, that's a lot ! - This too can be adjusted to PERFECT accuracy in the M6. Accessible once the top-plate is removed, there are two variable resistors just below the advance lever. - Again, bless her heart for doing what she obviously loves to do. But maybe a 'brush-up' course or continuing education will help her to master a 'Perfectionist' reputation in this profession. - Remember, Leicas are the Rolls Royce of the industry; and the demands for excellence are a bit more elevated with its customers...
Hi, I’m Jess from Viva La Film Thank you so very much for this info! I’m completely self told and backwards engineering a lot of what I do and I only started working on leicas cameras 4 months ago, when I acquired the manuals and tool for all Leica repairs. I’ve spend the last three months teaching my self this models with the kindness of trusting costumers and intermittent help from a retired Olympus technician that has been guiding me on maters I don’t yet understand. If you had some available time, I would love to chat with you, buy you a coffee , and video call you, I have so many questions and really no resources available here in Sydney. It will mean the world to me to have your guidance. Kind regards
Viva la Film!, Viva Jess for keeping this craft alive and well! It gives me hope that analog photography is here to stay! Thanks Sir Robin for showcasing her. I just wish that I lived closer. Cheers from Portugal.
Its always great to see people keeping the art of repair alive. As a tinkerer who has always fixed my own cameras it makes me a little jealous of all their repair gizmos, maybe someday i'll invest in all that. Great stuff as always, definitely following their page now.
Just finished the video and gotta say one of the best I've ever watched. My only comment would be that she was interrupted a lot when she was explaining things and I feel like everything out her mouth is invaluable. Helped me understand my leica m3 issues. I get weird light vertical patches on my film sometimes. At different positions on the film. One roll was so bad it was more like a vertical patches of good exposure. It was so strange. Also I remember estimating looking back that these shots were all around the 1000 or 500 shutter speeds. I wonder what oil is good for this besides wd40 or olive oil.
A great learning experience - thanks for sharing. I have just sent my M6 for a major CLA. Hoping to get it back soon! I would certainly trust Jess with my camera.
wow literally 5 min from my home, will definitely visit this shop. and looking forward for your street photo walk mate. try george street from china town to circular quay in the night time :)
Love love and love. The thought of all the cameras that go into the trash gives me anxiety. The greedy price gouging on film and cameras right now makes me sick but the thought of them thrown away makes me sicker. Thank God for people like her. I commend her so much.
Best video EVER !! OMG so good. You should have brought your XPAN or did you sell it already ? Definitely gonna check her out on YT and other sources. Thanks so much for sharing and hope to see the results after oiling in a next video when you shoot with it .
@@therealsirrobin Great. Later when I visited her videos and sites I read/heared she has no experience in fixing or servicing X-Pans so it would be in vain. Thanks for the reply though and carry on !
I have heard that if the light meter goes / gives up the ghost on the M6 that it can not be repaired and that Leica has no parts for it. Apparently parts from the reissue M6 will NOT work in it either. Can this technician perform some magic on an otherwise irreparable light meter?
Yes great video I would like to see a video with Jess at work like Chris Sherlock and Mike 062 do Then it would be more interesting and informative But alas she is closed as she said in the end of the video Way too busy I guess As she keeps learning on your cameras we can imagine only what and how its really done. An idea is you can video her actually repairing your camera and show us the step by step breakdown of the process Good luck
Hi Sam, Jess from Viva La film here! I have a TH-cam channel that has been inactive for a couple of years that I hope to upload repair videos to in the new year. Meanwhile I have made some Timelapse videos on my Instagram account you can check out.
Thank you Sam. Good idea but nobody would want to watch such a video because it would be way too long and most people probably would consider it to be boring.
Wow..I really really enyoyed this video. It is cool to see that the equipment to repair the cameras is as fascinating as the cameras themself. I would really like to know how she managed to save all the money to buy all that equipment from that guy. I hope she keeps learning and that she is very successful in her business so she can help to keep the cameras alive for he years to come.
I have a old Kyoritsu shutter tester. It was my fathers from when he was a camera tech in the 70's. I should contact Viva La Film to see if they are interested in it.
Hey there, Jess here from viva La film! I’m definitely Intrested! Any bit of equipment that we can salvage or adquirir gets us closer to doing this more professionally and accurately
@@VivaLaFilm Hi Jess, it's a Kyoritsu Model EF-551N. I will have a look around for any other equipment that could be useful.Maybe we can work out a trade for a CLA or lens repair.
20:45 haha, around 15 years ago I had a Canon QL17 with a sticky aperture ring and as the complete idiot that I was, I tried to fix it with some random oil I found in my grandfather's garage. It fixed the sticky ring, but now the aperture itself didn't move. So I went to a camera repair shop and the guy told me: "Yeah well congratulations! That's a camera and not a tractor!" and refused to fix it.
Nice episode - viva la film and her cameras! The Voigtländer Superb is a real beauty, but the Rolleiflex also has parallax correction, already in the thirties, when these two were competing. Actually, Franke & Heidecke had a trial going on against their former employee Voigtländer for their claim to have the only TLR with parallax correction in the market. Also, the different film traveling in the Superb is due to a patent held by Rollei.
@@therealsirrobin glad to hear it! Your zine arrived yesterday, it’s amazing. And I had no idea that it was shot at Hua Lamphong, one of my favorite spots in BKK!
WD-40 makes something for electronics and devices. Its called Contact Cleaner. Don’t use anything other than Contact Cleaner on the outside body of your camera (for dials and things like that). Obviously don’t spray anything on a lens. WD-40 (the oil stuff) is NOT for electronics.
That was nice Dose she receive Cameras from all around the world to fix Well I have a Yashica 35 mm analog camera and it’s damaged So can I send her my camera for fixing Well I am in Germany
Ok, ok... Old stuff has a lot of mojo, but let's be clear : film cameras are noticeably less durable than digital ones in terms of number of shots you can take before breaking down. Good luck taking even 50k pictures with a film camera. The shutter will loose its precision long before that, let alone the winding mechanism that will break first. Will a Sony still be here after 80 years? Probably not. But what is the point? Stone age axes will resist several millennia with less harm that any steel axe, are they better tools?
"shutter will loose its precision long before that, let alone the winding mechanism that will break first" - Haha 🤣 - Talk about truly naïve comments... I fix/service cameras & lenses that exceed 80 years of age. BY FAR, modern AF lenses and Pro level digital cameras are commonly rendered as PAPERWEIGHTS😎
@@y2ktube you fix them because they're broken. Digital cameras become paperweights because they're obsolete, not because they're broken, or become paperweights after 200k shots. Good luck shooting as much with any mechanical body. Oh, of course if you repair it every 20k it will last one millenium 🤡
@@Francois15031967 His DELETED comment :"because they're broken" Hey "Francois" the genius, I service cameras for true film Pros that have owned their Leica's since the sixties. Quality manual cameras DON'T break, they're serviced (a Rolex vs. a Casio). In fact, I RARELY have the need to replace parts in a 1930's 40's 50's 60's or 70's Leica camera, so get off your "200K cycles" propaganda garbage.😂 Another DELETED comment :"Digital cameras become paperweights because they're obsolete" Obsolete ? Yeah right "Francois", tell that to a customer who bought their $1,200 Sigma AF tele JUST 7 years ago and the company says that they NO LONGER support that model (no parts!). The SAME for the folks that bought a $9,000 Nikon AF super tele! - So genius, those HighDollar teles & zooms are all "obsolete" now? Yeah, more like obsoleted by the manufacture ! - Finally, look-up on Ebay all the PLASTIC shutter block units for sale (yes that's what they're made of). All your 'Durable' DSLR's are dropping like flies, mainly because the 'modern' photographer fires off pictures like they're in a shooting gallery. ANY Leica M shutter kits or assemblies on Ebay? NO...😎
@@y2ktube Oh Rolex are sooo collectable. Leica, too. Good ol' Canon F1 are less sexy but, hey! Still pretty chunky pieces of history. Maybe a Nikon F like one of those strapped on Dennis Hopper's neck in Apocalypse Now? Yeah. Mojo. Like I've said, they're serviceable, you can repair them, you'll have to if you use them. They seldom break TODAY because they're moslty used by Starbucks roamers.
Thank you so very much for coming over, and checking my workshop, trusting me with your Leica and letting me service the unit, it was so nice meting and talking to you, great conversation! Hope to have you back in Sydney in the future.
Thanks to you Jess. It was a pleasure meeting you and visiting your workshop! 😊👍
It was so interesting listen to you, thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Great to see your practice Jess
Viva ... love your ROLEI ♥ ...
Video @ 18:00 "It's not bad - they're not precision shutters - close enough" - Humm, bless her little heart, I'm very happy to see a young person learning this specialized profession. Now, I'm a fairly well known technician in the U S A. Her Kyoritsu tester indicated very accurate 500th readings with this M6, BUT, one can ALSO achieve a just as accurate 1,000th ! - Many cameras including the Leica M cameras, have a separate adjusting 'lobe' that allows for WELL within specification 1,000th accuracy. Among other things, she also misspoke when she addressed elevating the speed "tighten the curtains" 16:26 - Actually, after proper lubrication, balancing both curtain tensions is next, THEN the 'Slit-Width' properly adjusts the high speeds, not the tensioning...
Video @ 26:04 "maybe by ONE stop" - Wow, that's a lot ! - This too can be adjusted to PERFECT accuracy in the M6. Accessible once the top-plate is removed, there are two variable resistors just below the advance lever. - Again, bless her heart for doing what she obviously loves to do. But maybe a 'brush-up' course or continuing education will help her to master a 'Perfectionist' reputation in this profession. - Remember, Leicas are the Rolls Royce of the industry; and the demands for excellence are a bit more elevated with its customers...
Hi, I’m Jess from Viva La Film Thank you so very much for this info!
I’m completely self told and backwards engineering a lot of what I do and I only started working on leicas cameras 4 months ago, when I acquired the manuals and tool for all Leica repairs. I’ve spend the last three months teaching my self this models with the kindness of trusting costumers and intermittent help from a retired Olympus technician that has been guiding me on maters I don’t yet understand. If you had some available time, I would love to chat with you, buy you a coffee , and video call you, I have so many questions and really no resources available here in Sydney. It will mean the world to me to have your guidance.
Kind regards
Hi Jess, glad that you didn’t take my observations negatively. I can certainly help you out with your CE credits. ;-)
I’ll DM you on your Instagram…
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. :)
❤
What a wonderful and passionate lady.Happy that there are still good repair people around!
Viva la Film!, Viva Jess for keeping this craft alive and well! It gives me hope that analog photography is here to stay! Thanks Sir Robin for showcasing her. I just wish that I lived closer. Cheers from Portugal.
Super nice and generous of Jess to demystify this stuff for us. Thanks
Its always great to see people keeping the art of repair alive. As a tinkerer who has always fixed my own cameras it makes me a little jealous of all their repair gizmos, maybe someday i'll invest in all that. Great stuff as always, definitely following their page now.
Wonderful documentary! Thanks Jess for continuing such a fine and needed tradition! 🙂
Thank you so much for visiting Viva La Film. I’m impressed by what I’ve seen and it’s great to know there’s such a business in Sydney. Cheers.
It is so nice to see the passion and expertise this young lady brings to the job! Outstanding!
Just finished the video and gotta say one of the best I've ever watched. My only comment would be that she was interrupted a lot when she was explaining things and I feel like everything out her mouth is invaluable. Helped me understand my leica m3 issues. I get weird light vertical patches on my film sometimes. At different positions on the film. One roll was so bad it was more like a vertical patches of good exposure. It was so strange. Also I remember estimating looking back that these shots were all around the 1000 or 500 shutter speeds. I wonder what oil is good for this besides wd40 or olive oil.
wow she really knows what she is doing. So nice that there are people who learn how to use this old equipment and repairing stuff.
Great vlog about this repair journey. Viva la film seems cool. We need more shops like this around the world.
Hope you enjoy my second home Oz. Enjoyed the video. Inspired me to start my own channel. Cheers
Interesting! Very happy to see some people keeping film cameras alive.
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These guys have rescued over 100 000 film cameras.
Great video and great and highly committed lady! Enjoyed watching!
A great learning experience - thanks for sharing. I have just sent my M6 for a major CLA. Hoping to get it back soon! I would certainly trust Jess with my camera.
Amazing! She is a real thing! It looks like she understand all! Good to know NSW is covered! Thanks And her desk is super clean!
great workshop!📷💙
Thanks ! Very interesting and informative video. Lots of cool stuff. Love how passionate Jesse is ! 👍👍
Fascinating and absolutely wonderful! What an amazing skill!
I really love this, if gives some look into how the CLA would be done!
Really interesting. Thanks for posting!
This was awesome! Thanks so much for sharing!
I really hope you stopped by Sydney Super8 in Newtown it’s the best place to go for film photography in the city :)
I started there over 9 year ago!
Nice one love this episode that was a real good idea 👍 best Regards from Cologne, Germany ✌️
Last time I was in Sydney was in 1989 .. the year I got into photography… I miss Australia so much. Also I miss my Camera that I had a Nikon F3
Great video Robin. Absolutely fascinating content. 👍🏻
Viva la Film..... you are amazing
wow literally 5 min from my home, will definitely visit this shop. and looking forward for your street photo walk mate. try george street from china town to circular quay in the night time :)
Hi Bora! Sydney was great, was very lucky with the weather. 😊
Your Voigtlander Superb looks to be second model with pressed steel strap lugs about 1934 , so about 88 years old. I have the same model.
Great, is it still in working condition?
Love love and love. The thought of all the cameras that go into the trash gives me anxiety. The greedy price gouging on film and cameras right now makes me sick but the thought of them thrown away makes me sicker. Thank God for people like her. I commend her so much.
Fascinating watch. I’m glad your camera is good 👍
Yes, I mean it worked but I wasn't expecting such a positive outcome.
Try letting the people you interview talk without interrupting them often.
This has never been meant to be an interview an overview about what she is doing. Besides that, this is TH-cam things here work a bit differently.
@@therealsirrobin I get it you want to be part of the conversation but try and let her get a complete thought out.
Best video EVER !!
OMG so good.
You should have brought your XPAN or did you sell it already ?
Definitely gonna check her out on YT and other sources.
Thanks so much for sharing and hope to see the results after oiling in a next video when you shoot with it .
Thank you! The X-Pan had been fixed already and it has already been sold. Haven't had the chance to shoot the M6 since but this will change soon.
@@therealsirrobin Great.
Later when I visited her videos and sites I read/heared she has no experience in fixing or servicing X-Pans so it would be in vain.
Thanks for the reply though and carry on !
Hi, i want fix my rolleiflex , when u open?
I have heard that if the light meter goes / gives up the ghost on the M6 that it can not be repaired and that Leica has no parts for it. Apparently parts from the reissue M6 will NOT work in it either. Can this technician perform some magic on an otherwise irreparable light meter?
very interesting, thanks!!
Do you recommend to upgrade from M6 TTL x0.72 to M6 2022 model?
Too good! Welcome to Sydney Sir Robin. Will be in touch Viva.
do you know where to get the battery for m6 in sydney？thank
Yes great video I would like to see a video with Jess at work like Chris Sherlock and Mike 062 do Then it would be more interesting and informative But alas she is closed as she said in the end of the video Way too busy I guess As she keeps learning on your cameras we can imagine only what and how its really done.
An idea is you can video her actually repairing your camera and show us the step by step breakdown of the process Good luck
Hi Sam,
Jess from Viva La film here!
I have a TH-cam channel that has been inactive for a couple of years that I hope to upload repair videos to in the new year. Meanwhile I have made some Timelapse videos on my Instagram account you can check out.
Hi Jess Can you film an actual repair like Chris Sherlock and Mike 062 showing us your skills.I think that would be even more interesting Thanks Sam
Thank you Sam. Good idea but nobody would want to watch such a video because it would be way too long and most people probably would consider it to be boring.
@@therealsirrobin "most people probably would consider it to be boring."Why don't you try you just never know.
@@qguy741 Hey Sam, I’ll definitely try to squeeze a video repair soon, mean while I have made a little time lapse over on my Instagram.
very interesting video, thanks for share
Wow..I really really enyoyed this video. It is cool to see that the equipment to repair the cameras is as fascinating as the cameras themself. I would really like to know how she managed to save all the money to buy all that equipment from that guy. I hope she keeps learning and that she is very successful in her business so she can help to keep the cameras alive for he years to come.
This was super informative! Thank you!
I have a old Kyoritsu shutter tester. It was my fathers from when he was a camera tech in the 70's. I should contact Viva La Film to see if they are interested in it.
Hey there, Jess here from viva La film! I’m definitely Intrested! Any bit of equipment that we can salvage or adquirir gets us closer to doing this more professionally and accurately
@@VivaLaFilm Hi Jess, it's a Kyoritsu Model EF-551N. I will have a look around for any other equipment that could be useful.Maybe we can work out a trade for a CLA or lens repair.
@@0action847 that is such generous of you, I would be so grateful and will restore anything you need done.
It's lovely to see people helping out each other. Thank you very much. 👍
This was brilliant robin, thank you.
20:45 haha, around 15 years ago I had a Canon QL17 with a sticky aperture ring and as the complete idiot that I was, I tried to fix it with some random oil I found in my grandfather's garage. It fixed the sticky ring, but now the aperture itself didn't move. So I went to a camera repair shop and the guy told me: "Yeah well congratulations! That's a camera and not a tractor!" and refused to fix it.
Nice episode - viva la film and her cameras! The Voigtländer Superb is a real beauty, but the Rolleiflex also has parallax correction, already in the thirties, when these two were competing. Actually, Franke & Heidecke had a trial going on against their former employee Voigtländer for their claim to have the only TLR with parallax correction in the market. Also, the different film traveling in the Superb is due to a patent held by Rollei.
That’s is a very interesting parts of history! Thanks for sharing
@@VivaLaFilm 🙏(taken from Claus Prochnow‘s „Rollei Report“) Keep them going!
Viva Jess!
I'd love to send my cameras to you but shipping from the US would be too expensive. I'm glad you're out there keeping our cameras going.
No worries completely understandable. There are lots of amazing repair shops in the USA
So cool! 👍🏼
Great video and camera works fine...It´s a Leica what else!
Thanks for sharing！
That was brilliant, thank you for making the video. How was you camera performing after the service?
Thank you! It works like a charm as it did before the service.
@@therealsirrobin glad to hear it! Your zine arrived yesterday, it’s amazing. And I had no idea that it was shot at Hua Lamphong, one of my favorite spots in BKK!
What a fantastic video .. she’s ace … passionate
Thank you! Yes, she is super passionate about what she is doing.
ROLLEI strikes again !! Viva Le ROLLEI 😆 ... yeah I love love my Leica and Rollei's oh , have F3 Nikon too . and 2 4x5's
Great video! She is awesome
Oh actually can i make my curtin titan in my m4?
Amazing!!!!!❤
Awesome 👌
Amazing video & amazing lady!
i broke protection glass from rangefinder window in my Leica M4 T-T
Coool !!!!
WD-40 makes something for electronics and devices. Its called Contact Cleaner. Don’t use anything other than Contact Cleaner on the outside body of your camera (for dials and things like that). Obviously don’t spray anything on a lens. WD-40 (the oil stuff) is NOT for electronics.
She’s pretty special.
Leicas not just need TLC but also a CLA from time to time…😅
Mechanical things should be used good lesson from that video.
That was nice
Dose she receive Cameras from all around the world to fix
Well I have a Yashica 35 mm analog camera and it’s damaged
So can I send her my camera for fixing
Well I am in Germany
She probably would do it but I guess you are better off sending it to some place in Germany otherwise shipping would cost more than the repair itself.
Ok, ok... Old stuff has a lot of mojo, but let's be clear : film cameras are noticeably less durable than digital ones in terms of number of shots you can take before breaking down. Good luck taking even 50k pictures with a film camera. The shutter will loose its precision long before that, let alone the winding mechanism that will break first. Will a Sony still be here after 80 years? Probably not. But what is the point? Stone age axes will resist several millennia with less harm that any steel axe, are they better tools?
"shutter will loose its precision long before that, let alone the winding mechanism that will break first" - Haha 🤣 - Talk about truly naïve comments...
I fix/service cameras & lenses that exceed 80 years of age. BY FAR, modern AF lenses and Pro level digital cameras are commonly rendered as PAPERWEIGHTS😎
@@y2ktube you fix them because they're broken. Digital cameras become paperweights because they're obsolete, not because they're broken, or become paperweights after 200k shots. Good luck shooting as much with any mechanical body. Oh, of course if you repair it every 20k it will last one millenium 🤡
@@Francois15031967 His DELETED comment :"because they're broken" Hey "Francois" the genius, I service cameras for true film Pros that have owned their Leica's since the sixties. Quality manual cameras DON'T break, they're serviced (a Rolex vs. a Casio). In fact, I RARELY have the need to replace parts in a 1930's 40's 50's 60's or 70's Leica camera, so get off your "200K cycles" propaganda garbage.😂
Another DELETED comment :"Digital cameras become paperweights because they're obsolete" Obsolete ? Yeah right "Francois", tell that to a customer who bought their $1,200 Sigma AF tele JUST 7 years ago and the company says that they NO LONGER support that model (no parts!). The SAME for the folks that bought a $9,000 Nikon AF super tele! - So genius, those HighDollar teles & zooms are all "obsolete" now? Yeah, more like obsoleted by the manufacture ! - Finally, look-up on Ebay all the PLASTIC shutter block units for sale (yes that's what they're made of). All your 'Durable' DSLR's are dropping like flies, mainly because the 'modern' photographer fires off pictures like they're in a shooting gallery. ANY Leica M shutter kits or assemblies on Ebay? NO...😎
@@y2ktube Oh Rolex are sooo collectable. Leica, too. Good ol' Canon F1 are less sexy but, hey! Still pretty chunky pieces of history. Maybe a Nikon F like one of those strapped on Dennis Hopper's neck in Apocalypse Now? Yeah. Mojo.
Like I've said, they're serviceable, you can repair them, you'll have to if you use them. They seldom break TODAY because they're moslty used by Starbucks roamers.
Lots of interruption
So what?
What interruprions, I learn a lot this was off the charts, I have a Nikon D850 and Sony a6600 and want a film camera....
I unfortunately have to recommend against viva La film… sorry… bad experience