Something wrong with my LEICA M6?

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One thing I wanted to do for a while is having my black M6 checked out, especially when it comes to shutter speeds. I haven't used it a lot and I don't think that the camera hasn't seen any service in a long time or maybe it hasn't seen one at all. In this video it is finally happening and I was very curious to see the results.
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@VivaLaFilm Жыл бұрын

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.

@therealsirrobin Жыл бұрын

Thanks to you Jess. It was a pleasure meeting you and visiting your workshop! 😊👍

@doyoudevelop Жыл бұрын

It was so interesting listen to you, thank you for sharing your knowledge!

@danielcoburn7696 11 ай бұрын

Great to see your practice Jess

@chrisloomis1489 7 ай бұрын

Viva ... love your ROLEI ♥ ...

@y2ktube Жыл бұрын

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...

@VivaLaFilm Жыл бұрын

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

@y2ktube Жыл бұрын

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…

@therealsirrobin Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing your knowledge. :)

@carlhale5405 Жыл бұрын

❤

@Bigfarmer8 Жыл бұрын

What a wonderful and passionate lady.Happy that there are still good repair people around!

@bigbootyhunta Жыл бұрын

Jess has such a tremendous enthusiasm and passion for her craft. Thanks for sharing Sir Robin.

@enriquenavas1979 Жыл бұрын

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.

@paullichte Жыл бұрын

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.

@Caballeroshot Жыл бұрын

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.

@mynewcolour Жыл бұрын

Super nice and generous of Jess to demystify this stuff for us. Thanks

@muatao9943 Жыл бұрын

Wonderful documentary! Thanks Jess for continuing such a fine and needed tradition! 🙂

@camerafusion Жыл бұрын

Interesting! Very happy to see some people keeping film cameras alive.

@Galeidan Жыл бұрын

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gKd3qrKkzNHVXXU.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eNqfmbFhsbzZc30.html These guys have rescued over 100 000 film cameras.

@willbaren Жыл бұрын

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.

@kabaottoemulsion1869 Жыл бұрын

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!

@Ralf_Baron Жыл бұрын

It is so nice to see the passion and expertise this young lady brings to the job! Outstanding!

@colinosullivan Жыл бұрын

Hope you enjoy my second home Oz. Enjoyed the video. Inspired me to start my own channel. Cheers

@BackFocus11 Жыл бұрын

Great vlog about this repair journey. Viva la film seems cool. We need more shops like this around the world.

@Bpisecurity Жыл бұрын

Try letting the people you interview talk without interrupting them often.

@therealsirrobin Жыл бұрын

This has never been meant to be an interview an overview about what she is doing. Besides that, this is KZfaq things here work a bit differently.

@ebreevephoto Жыл бұрын

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.

@Rico-ns5dt Жыл бұрын

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.

@obscur_yoann Жыл бұрын

Thanks ! Very interesting and informative video. Lots of cool stuff. Love how passionate Jesse is ! 👍👍

@thomasz1543 Жыл бұрын

Great video and great and highly committed lady! Enjoyed watching!

@MadMax-bh3mn Жыл бұрын

great workshop!📷💙

@mikecocoprint4894 Жыл бұрын

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

@fgj4990 Жыл бұрын

Fascinating and absolutely wonderful! What an amazing skill!

@shrubrocketeer Жыл бұрын

Great video Robin. Absolutely fascinating content. 👍🏻

@qguy741 Жыл бұрын

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

@VivaLaFilm Жыл бұрын

Hi Sam, Jess from Viva La film here! I have a KZfaq 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.

@qguy741 Жыл бұрын

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

@therealsirrobin Жыл бұрын

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.

@qguy741 Жыл бұрын

@@therealsirrobin "most people probably would consider it to be boring."Why don't you try you just never know.

@VivaLaFilm Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@mitchellloper1367 Жыл бұрын

This was awesome! Thanks so much for sharing!

@boxlock2009 Жыл бұрын

Really interesting. Thanks for posting!

@doyoudevelop Жыл бұрын

This was super informative! Thank you!

@24thfebruary Жыл бұрын

Nice one love this episode that was a real good idea 👍 best Regards from Cologne, Germany ✌️

@RichardSmith-cn9mx Жыл бұрын

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.

@therealsirrobin Жыл бұрын

Great, is it still in working condition?

@stevepringle2295 Жыл бұрын

Viva Jess!

@amaniahnuar Жыл бұрын

I really love this, if gives some look into how the CLA would be done!

@Rico-ns5dt Жыл бұрын

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.

@backyardjunkie 11 күн бұрын

This was brilliant robin, thank you.

@boraoku Жыл бұрын

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 :)

@therealsirrobin Жыл бұрын

Hi Bora! Sydney was great, was very lucky with the weather. 😊

@rjohnbernales Жыл бұрын

Fascinating watch. I’m glad your camera is good 👍

@therealsirrobin Жыл бұрын

Yes, I mean it worked but I wasn't expecting such a positive outcome.

@rideroundandstuff Жыл бұрын

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.

@RS-Amsterdam Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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.

@RS-Amsterdam Жыл бұрын

@@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 !

@haraldschreiber Жыл бұрын

very interesting, thanks!!

@ArmandoStreets Жыл бұрын

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.

@rmle23 6 ай бұрын

Great video and camera works fine...It´s a Leica what else!

@George9654 Жыл бұрын

So cool! 👍🏼

@ThePapabull Жыл бұрын

Viva la Film..... you are amazing

@chrisloomis1489 7 ай бұрын

ROLLEI strikes again !! Viva Le ROLLEI 😆 ... yeah I love love my Leica and Rollei's oh , have F3 Nikon too . and 2 4x5's

@0action847 Жыл бұрын

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.

@VivaLaFilm Жыл бұрын

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

@0action847 Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@VivaLaFilm Жыл бұрын

@@0action847 that is such generous of you, I would be so grateful and will restore anything you need done.

@therealsirrobin Жыл бұрын

It's lovely to see people helping out each other. Thank you very much. 👍

@sentimental7167 Жыл бұрын

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.

@VivaLaFilm Жыл бұрын

That’s is a very interesting parts of history! Thanks for sharing

@sentimental7167 Жыл бұрын

@@VivaLaFilm 🙏(taken from Claus Prochnow‘s „Rollei Report“) Keep them going!

@blende5.693 Жыл бұрын

very interesting video, thanks for share

@crlclssic Жыл бұрын

Great video! She is awesome

@GONZOFAM7 Жыл бұрын

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.

@VivaLaFilm Жыл бұрын

No worries completely understandable. There are lots of amazing repair shops in the USA

@jasonblake5576 Жыл бұрын

Amazing!!!!!❤

@oversharingturtle4462 Жыл бұрын

I really hope you stopped by Sydney Super8 in Newtown it’s the best place to go for film photography in the city :)

@VivaLaFilm Жыл бұрын

I started there over 9 year ago!

@mikecocoprint4894 Жыл бұрын

What a fantastic video .. she’s ace … passionate

@therealsirrobin Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Yes, she is super passionate about what she is doing.

@devlincook5741 Жыл бұрын

That was brilliant, thank you for making the video. How was you camera performing after the service?

@therealsirrobin Жыл бұрын

Thank you! It works like a charm as it did before the service.

@devlincook5741 Жыл бұрын

@@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!

@madrouault3 Жыл бұрын

Coool !!!!

@gurugamer8632 6 ай бұрын

Do you recommend to upgrade from M6 TTL x0.72 to M6 2022 model?

@tedphillips2951 Жыл бұрын

Amazing video & amazing lady!

@peterdetong1556 Жыл бұрын

do you know where to get the battery for m6 in sydney？thank

@jackmatthews9390 Жыл бұрын

She’s pretty special.

@crissignori7482 10 ай бұрын

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?

@aristoioannidis7490 Жыл бұрын

Too good! Welcome to Sydney Sir Robin. Will be in touch Viva.

@fadjarutama9496 Жыл бұрын

Hi, i want fix my rolleiflex , when u open?

@andyjones5192 Жыл бұрын

Leicas not just need TLC but also a CLA from time to time…😅 Mechanical things should be used good lesson from that video.

@codiecrieg2480 28 күн бұрын

i broke protection glass from rangefinder window in my Leica M4 T-T

@carlosmcse Жыл бұрын

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.

@CzejenAndCodaj 3 ай бұрын

Oh actually can i make my curtin titan in my m4?

@T-Prime848 Жыл бұрын

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

@therealsirrobin Жыл бұрын

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.

@Francois15031967 Жыл бұрын

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?

@y2ktube Жыл бұрын

"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😎

@Francois15031967 Жыл бұрын

@@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 🤡

@y2ktube Жыл бұрын

@@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...😎

@Francois15031967 Жыл бұрын

@@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.