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As I’ve mentioned in the past, I want to make sure that I track good camera repair people so I list them here.

I have seen many posts referring to the repairs made by John Titterington on Minolta cameras. Though he apparently repairs several brands.

I don’t know him. I haven’t used him, but I haven’t seen anything negative about him. And most importantly, he restores Minolta cameras.

So, if you need a repair to a camera, you might check him out.

Also, here is a link to his auctions of restored cameras on ebay. He usually has some nice looking cameras there.

John Titterington’s Cameras on Ebay

Here’s a copy of his blurb on ebay:

John Titterington has been repairing and selling fine photographic equipment in the Kansas City area since 1976. He specializes in refurbishing older Canon, Minolta, Nikon, Olympus and Pentax single lens reflex cameras.

If you are interested in getting your camera repaired you can reach him at J T Camera@aol.com

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I’ve mentioned Jurgen Kreckel’s Certo6.com before when talking about one of my cameras. But today, I want to really focus in on this site.

First off, I need to mention that I have not bought any of his cameras or used his repair services. His work looks impressive. Any guy who is passionate about folders is OK with me.

Anyway, this is an excellent web site. My favorite aspect is that he provides commentary and shows pictures of the typical models that he has restored.

At the time I’m writing this he has pages devoted to:
Adox Sport/Golf
Agfa Isolette I/II/III
Agfa Super Isolette
Agfa Automatic 66
Agfa Record & Billy
Balda Super Baldax/Baldafix
Balda Super Pontura
Balda Hapo 66
Braun Gloria
Certo Six
Dacora Royal
Franka Solida/Rolfix
Russian Folders
Voigtländer Bessa I/II
Voigtländer Perkeo I/II/IIIe
Welta Weltur
Zeiss Ikontas

He repairs and sells those cameras and more.

This site is well worth a couple hours of study. I know I’m going to end up buying one of these.

Check out the beautiful folding cameras he has on EBAY

If you have the urge to fix up an old camera, I have a good site for you. The Classic Camera Repair Forum

The site has several thousand posts over a varied landscape of cameras. This is a good place to learn some camera repair tricks and ask questions of people that might be helpful.

I greatly appreciated the free online camera repair manuals Be sure to check the links at the bottom of the page if you don’t see anything that fits your needs.

This also has some nice free camera repair articles.

The free camera instruction manuals are a welcome addtion.

This site has become one of my favorite stomping grounds lately.

I should say though that if you are considering working on a valuable camera and you haven’t done it before, you are impatient, you are lacking technique, you won’t pay for proper oil or proper tools, please have a qualified repair person fix your camera for you or donate it to me. 😉 There is no sense in ruining it.

One thing you might need is a donor camera or even a camera to fix up. Be sure you search intelligently and you should be able to find Parts Cameras on eBay