Camera Repair Secrets

Ed Romney's Camera Repair and Restoration Information

Camera repair books by Ed Romney, learn the techniques and secrets required to repair antique to modern camera equipment yourself. Revised and Updated January 2003.... THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR PHOTO WEBSITES ON THE NET! Photographers love the Romney Website because here you learn how repair your cameras at low cost and keep them dependable for decades. We actually reveal all the TRADE SECRETS OF CAMERA REPAIR, found nowhere else in our popular book, REVISED BASIC TRAINING IN CAMERA REPAIR. This $39, 132 page, 100,000 word spiral bound text has been praised in Popular and Modern Photography, in Petersens Photographic, in Library Journal, PPA, PSA and foreign photo magazines. Thousands of libraries have purchased it. The public loves Romney's book, though camera stores will not admit it exists. All our books are kept in stock. We are very much in business... and eager to serve you.   PHOTOS: Basic Training Text has over 300 photos and drawings like this page.      Ed took this beautiful rainbow picture with an Agfa Karat he bought second hand for $10 and restored in a few hours using the repair methods taught in his repair texts. HOW YOU WILL BENEFIT FROM KNOWING CAMERA REPAIR As a photographer you will be able to check out a camera ...so you will own the best cameras always working - at low cost. Often you will be able to spot trouble before your camera breaks down. It now becomes practical to buy and use second hand cameras. As a dealer or collector you will be able to buy non working used cameras at low cost and fix them up to sell. Many fine professional and classic cameras are very cheap if not working. Recently I bought a jammed Leica in near mint condition for $100 and fixed it in less than an hour. A customer of ours bought a Hasselblad in a yard sale for $5. I bought an original 1888 Kodak for $50 and sold it for $2000 a few years ago. Some classic cameras are worth as much as $80,000. Camera repair is a good trade too. With a shop you can bill $75 to $100/hr for repairs. As an employee you will earn $25,000/yr or more and there is NO unemployment. Most of the camera repair people who worked on the great classic cameras, such as Zeiss, Leica, Graflex, Rollei and Nikon are now extremely old. Many have already died off, and the trade is in danger of becomming a "lost art." Here is a good opportunity for younger people to take over. Only in my books are the real trade secrets of camera repair revealed. A word to the wise: Camera repair is not affected by wars or economic recessions as other businesses are. When times are bad, people are more apt to fix up their old cameras...instead of trading them in for new ones, you see... And when they travel less, pictures become more important to them. How well should a good camera perform? Which are the best cameras? (Click here for a repairman's confidential opinion.) WHAT CAMERAS ARE COVERED IN BASIC TRAINING? Agfa, Argus,Canon, Ciroflex, Compur Shutters, Contax II, IIA, III,Copal Shutters, Exakta 127 TO RTL, Graflex, Ilex shutters, Kodak, Konica Autoreflex, Leica, I TO M4, Linhof, Mercury, Minolta, Minox 35, Nikkormat, Nikon, most RF AND SLR, Olympus OM-1, OM-2, XA, Pentax 35mm, Praktica, Retina, Rolleiflex, Seikosha shutters, Voigtlander, Yashicamat , Zeiss and Zenit. It has chapters on recent autoexposure and autofocus cameras too. BASIC TRAINING covers cameras as far back as 1928. Our ANTIQUE CAMERA REPAIR AND RESTORATION TEXT for $19 covers valuable earlier cameras ... as far back as 1890. We have many more specialized texts for most good cameras. GETTING STARTED Beginners should buy our well known 132 page REVISED BASIC TRAINING IN CAMERA REPAIR which covers Compur, Copal and most other leaf shutters, cloth and metal focal plane shutters, rangefinders, autofocus systems, meters, mirrors, lenses, wind systems, testing, cleaning, lubrication and adjustment. It uses a systems approach so you can fix most cameras. Easy to understand. No higher math. The 2001 edition of Basic Training has greatly improved print and paper quality. BASIC TRAINING costs $39 plus $6 shipp. US, $7Canada. $12 overseas. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED on all our books and tools.   NEED MORE INFORMATION, MORE HELP? We offer an expanded version of the BASIC TRAINING text on audio tape with a workbook with practical exercises and additional material for $99. We also offer over 55 advanced and specialized repair manuals for the camera of your choice. Our Leica, Rolleiflex and Nikon repair manuals are very popular. You will need our BASIC TRAINING text too, unless you already know camera repair. Click here to display the full book list.   WHAT ABOUT CAMERA REPAIR TOOLS? We DO NOT claim to have the largest stock of camera repair tools in the world, but we do HAVE THE BEST TOOLS! And we promise never to try to sell you anything you really don't need. We stock our own line of very high grade imported watchmaker and precision tools including Vigor, Eurotool, Bestfit, DuMont and other fine makes, at low prices. We have unusual items such as long gripper tweezers coated with diamond dust.... that never slip. We have a lens spanner you need for unscrewing rings around lenses, a lens vise for pressing out dinged lens filter rings, and our fine fiberglas pen-type burnishing brush for cleaning tiny electrical contacts and removing marks from chrome on camera bodies. For beginners, we sell our own special tool outfit of the most needed camera tools ( list $231) at a discount price of only $200, a considerable savings. All our books and tools are included in this web page. Our tools are described and illustrated in detail in our free catalog sent with every order. You can order this fascinating catalog anytime without charge by writing, phoning...or e-mailing us at eromney@teleplex.net. Be sure to give your snail mail address for catalogs and orders, Hint: To get all this information without waiting, simply print out this web page and its links on your printer. It contains all the items in our paper catalog. It will then become your own catalog . It will have larger type and pictures than the catalogs we send by mail. Click on the photo to enlarge it To see our tool catalog page click here. Complete tool kit only $200. All Romney Camera Repair Texts $395. Over 50% discount! See booklist page.  HOW TO ORDER There are three ways to order: E-Mail, regular mail and by phone. 1. E-mail. Click here to go to the special E-mail automatic order form. Click on the items you want, fill out the blanks and press to send it over the net to us. 2. By regular mail: Click here to go to the regular mail order form. Print it out on your printer, fill it in with pen or pencil and mail it in an envelope to ROMNEY at Box 487 Drayton SC 29333. Do not fax it. We cannot receive fax. Note: The mail order form can only be printed out on paper. If you prefer, you can simply send the order to us on paper in the form of a letter. 3. Simply phone in your order to us at 864- 597-1882 FOR OUR JAPANESE CUSTOMERS- Romney repair manuals are very popular in Japan where fine cameras are appreciated. Our Japanese dealer is Mr Takao Kubo. Japanese customers should order directly from him at Cosmo System Lab's site. METHODS OF PAYMENT- Visa and Mastercard are OK. By mail, we take personal checks, money orders, travelers checks, cash by registered mail, and bank checks. Personal checks may delay. Foreign checks must be bank checks in US dollars drawn on an account in a US bank. Your local bank can supply them. SHIPPING CHARGES-In the US we charge $6 per order no matter how many books or tools you order. Even a Tool Kit is $6. In Canada it costs $7 per order. Overseas we charge per book. $6 per book or a minimum $12 an order by air. Examples:Basic Training overseas $12 shipping. Basic Training and Leica still $12, Basic Training Leica and Contax, 3 books $15. Shipping for tools is charged at actual cost overseas. For example, a tool kit will be about $25 shipping foreign air mail. Allow 10 to 14 days for your order to arrive. Ed and Sara Romney TO GET MORE PICTURES AND FASCINATING CAMERA INFORMATION, CLICK HERE. God Bless America [ Home | Book List | Order Form | Next ] Copyright C 1996-2003 Last modified: Jan 28 2003.