What?! How does one design, build and repair such equipment? Unbelievable.

I’ve owned many slr cameras in the past but didn’t realise how incredibly complex they were internally. This undoubtedly the most skillful video I have ever watched. Thankyou.

very detailed and excellent image quality... wonderful. I signed up

It makes me very happy to see this camera repaired and restored. These XD series Minoltas are wonderful cameras. You did a fantastic job.

Excellent work; restoration and video. Just a couple of comments; It is not advisable to clean the focusing screen with a cotton swab, it is better to do it ultrasonically. And since a long time ago I had to repair several XG-9, X-300, X-700, 7000 and some microcomputers of the time, it is highly recommended at that level to replace all tantalum capacitors, even if they seem to be fine. I have the XD-7 and it continues to work without problems. Its film/shutter loading system seems to me to be the smoothest of all those I have tried, along with that of the Leica R4 version also manufactured by Minolta. This multi pre-set camera was competition in the early 80s for the Pentax Super A, Canon A1 and Nikon FA, which I have all in my collection. The damaged vertical travelling shutter in this XD was from SEIKO, while Nikon used a COPAL.

I did my XD-11 almost a year ago, bought on e-Bay spares or repair, not working, with hanging mirror and no shutter release. (It cost me £23 with a 135mm F1:1.35 lens also faulty, Aperture stuck which I repaired in about 30 minutes. Full shutter CLA it was the mirror release arm sticky grease causing mirror to stick and the shutter just needed a clean same as yours. When I ran a test roll the film was very overexposed, though shutter speeds were spot on. The cause was the ASA pot wiper had been misconnected on the flexiboard, and I had rewired according to my pre-strip photos. I downloaded the service manual and checked the wiring and found the wiper had been wrongly connected by a previous repair attempt gone wrong. I'm happy to say after a 25 hour repair and fault correction process I have a beautiful example of a camera I couldn't afford while working for Minolta service agents Photopia, in the UK when this camera was in production in the late '70's early '80's. Superb video, professional and highly competent repair skills, a pleasure to watch. Liked and Subbed, thank you.

it looks like and feel like meditation

awesome - nice to see someone finally resurrecting these cameras

Wonderful! Unparalleled video! This is the most detailed and thorough Minolta XD camera disassembly and repair video I've ever seen. I own 4 Minolta XDs and they have more or less problems, thank you very much! -- Greetings from China

Wow It was really a difficult repair. you are a specialist . Nice

Amazing work, however I never use a cotton swab to clean a focusing screen, because the micro prisms in the focusing screen can retain the cotton fibers. The best way is ultrasonic clean in my opinion.

The XD5 is the small brother of the XD7, means subtle feature reduced, and comes only into silver, not black, like the XD7. Otherwise, a swan song of the last metal build Minolta camera. I have mine for >32 years...film is real. Love it to bits. It's a haptic medium, and when you've got 36 frames only, or at best maybe 38, onto some cameras even 40...with a 135-36 roll of 35mm film, you'd think quite more about composition, making it worth, have personal value, than just clicking it happy away trigger happy with digital...and film comes at a price into 2024...a roll of Kodak Ektar 100 is the opposite of cheap, and so is Fujifilm Acros II.... But the XD5 didn't came into 1975 - it was being released into 1979, as a subtle more cost sensitive alternative to the XD7. The XD7 was being named XD into Japan, and XD11 into the US. It's all the same 35mm SLR, different names for different markets into the world. 🙂 A special version was the XD-S with instead of a viewfinder blind, it had a diopter adjustment knob instead. Great work, lovely to see this XD5 restore !

Amazing!

Gracias ,un profesional ,excelente video ,un saludo desde España .

Wow, I tip my hat to you! Often I wonder how much it costs to refurbish these cameras.

Brutal!!!! congratulations!!!

Wow. Amazing job!

Excellent work.

Wow, great! I have one of my XD7 at a technician, repairing and restoring as the aperture stop lever don't work as intended. Seeing here what all needs to be done- especially removing the mirror-shutter-cage assembly is like working on a open heart! Fantastic work! But there is a small error: those XDs came out not before 1977, especially this XD5 must have been after 19978/79 looking at the exposure correction lever.

I love this type of content!!! Keep it up and you'll be more popular for sure! Currently, I have a functional Olympus Pen-FT, but it's light meter doesn't work. This gives me a cool insight into how the camera is operating within.

Ive got the XD7 (same model?) It had sluggish shutter press the button and shutter would fire a second or two later Turns out i was the damper piston (on the left side of mount) wasn't running as smooth manage to free it up (there a service note on cleaning it) but my god that long spring that hooks onto the body and attaches to the F stop signal ring was a pain to refit (spring did get crushed abit ). Works nicely now. I bow with respected to your Repair/Restore skills! Im only brave enough to replace a bad cap or two.

Amigo ,you can clean cortinas with Zippo fluid lighter ,i use this with exito .Great ,great work .

Incredible work! Please do Pentax ME Super if you can. Cheers👍👍👍

master!

This is great! Would love you see you work on a Canon in the future!

Cool

Is it possible for you, to release a list of things needed for such repairs.

Amazing!!! Great content, I subscribed straight away. Are you a professional camera technician? Those 70s camera's really were a marvel of engineering and look great 🤗

Awesome. How much would it cost to have this done? How long will the camera last at this point?

I don't think I have ever seen on youtube someone goes this deep into opening film cameras. Just think about, if film cameras would have still be made today, how irreperable would they be with anti-repair trend we have today.

Beautiful work! I have XD7 but the light meter is not working, it is overexposing every shot. What was the issue with light meter in your camera?

What are all the tools needed to repair most cameras? Or at least the more important ones.

How did you level the focusing screen?

Do you sell these after?

How much for a Fujifilm DL-200?

Where you from sir, Im from India, I love your work, I have yashica mat 124 G. I want complete restored the camera, will you do the job?? Please reply

I have enjyed your videos of cameras being repaired. Are you in England? I have a Olympus Pen camera that can not wind film, i have not forced the wind mechanism. I would like to know if you would consider fixing this issue and how much this would cost me. Best wishes.

I am completely in awe watching this awesome video … your micro soldering skills are beyond reproach … first class all the way … thank you so very much for sharing your skills in this video … 👍🏻👍🏻🙏🏻🫡