1960s Vintage 35mm Film Camera Restoration
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- čas přidán 17. 05. 2021
- The Meika 35 vintage film camera is a very basic 35mm film viewfinder camera produced by the Japanese company Tougodo. It has a 50mm fixed-focus lens. The aperture is controlled via a three-step ring (for bright light, medium light, poor light indicated by icons). It has only 1 shutter speed. The top- and bottom-covers are plain aluminum.
One of Tougodo's Meisupii series of stylish modern toy rangefinder cameras from the 1960s. The "Meika" (should it even be pronounced as "Leica"?) is distinct from the many variations of "Meikai" cameras (ST, SL, EL, etc).
This old camera, you can see it was kept in a very bad environment. After the restore was done, I tried taking pictures from it. I am quite impressed with the photos it brings. You will see photos at the END of the VIDEO.
I hope you like my work and the video.
Sorry for my bad English, it's not my language.
Thanks for watching, don't forget to like and subscribe!
#restoration #filmcamera #35mm #meika - Zábava
Dear everyone watching this:
This is a cosmetic repair. The camera was in awful condition when they started working on it and it ended up looking very good, but they made a few mistakes that in the long run will make the camera not work properly. The biggest one is the amount of lubrication on the aperture and shutter mechanism, they put about 20 times the amount needed.
It's ok since this is pretty much a toy camera (despite the fact that the top plate looks kind of like a good 60s camera), but if you own a camera that's actually good and needs repair *this is not the way to do it.* Take it to someone who actually restores cameras as a daily job, this is called a CLA and most service shops do it. In this case this was an extreme CLA, but a CLA nonetheless.
Good video tho, I'm not hating on it :)
Thanks for your positive reviews. I admit that the things I do are not really good. I'm not a true CLA, but I'll try to do better.
By the way, the lubricant here is a premium Lithium lubricant, which does not harden over time.
Sorry about my English. Thank you againt!!
@@BeeBetu haha you have the stuff to be amazing at restoring cameras if you keep working at it, no doubt about that!
The issue with lubricant in shutters is that even a slight amount ends up getting everywhere in the lens, it gets on the aperture blades and then they stick. Im guessing this camera doesn't have that many shutter speeds so it probably doesn't matter that much, but on cameras with shutter speeds under 1/60 that's an issue. Eventually they don't close fully at any speed.
But like I said, no doubt you are capable of being amazing at this so keep up the good work!
JeffDvrx I admire you and your understanding!! 😉😉😉
if anyone thinks this video is bad, just show them this one: czcams.com/video/yYCR7rAyNic/video.html
@@Shrek_Has_Covid19
- Hmm... Well yeah i guess you could get rid of mud like that
- oh no, he's spraying the display? Well maybe it can handle it
- wait dafuq is he doing to that poor lens
- *OMG THE SENSOR LOL WTF*
lovely painted on dirt effect there
You got that painted dirt and corrosion off pretty well. All my cameras that are rusty like that are in the mechanisms too. Not just inside the film bay. So with some dish soap and spray paint, I can get mine in working order? Maybe I should try that on my old ford. Who knew dish soap removes rust and corrosion and restores paint?
Please do not do anything this guy did
Dude, this is a fake video, it's rusty on the outside but unchanged on the inside, I'm 1000% sure they made it deliberately using chemical means, the inside is perfect but the outer shell looks like it's been soaked in water for a hundred years , I have repaired and owned about 30 Film cameras, I am sure this is a fake video, do not follow the method in the video to repair your camera
Love seeing old camera repair!!!
It's fake
One of the most beautiful videos ever.
I have to salut these restorers simply for remembering where everything goes when re-assembling the project. No matter what it be !
He filmed the disassembly so doesn't have to remember....
Yup, I'm with you there.
Yep. My feelings exactly.
There's service manuals
Incredible. Kudos to you.
Beautiful, from start to finish!
This was a magical restoration.
Wow! Beautiful work of art.
The patients of this guy....🤩🤩🤩
Omg that was so satisfying to watch!!!!!
Wow. Second life! Great job, great pics. Very live it. Thank you.
Thank you. So cool to se the pics you took with it. Keep up the great work
I am mesmerized. It was like hypnotic therapy watching this
wonderful photos at the end. Obviously the ones of your daughter make the project worth doing for yourself!
Beautifully Restored.
This was extremely satisfying to watch.
BRAVO
👌🏻I restored a yashica linx and it’s nice to see more people who recover this pieces of history ✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻
My father has one, it's stopped working but is utterly beautiful!
You deserve a Nobel Prize, sir. Respect.
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Wow, that's amazing
awesone! the pictures are amazing!
Brilliant, fascinating, joyful. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Such a great job. 👍
Amazing work, almost as complex as a watch
Its so satisfying. Make more videos like this!
Loved this video,good job. So pleasant to watch.
Didn’t think it was possible! You have amazing skills!
It's fake... the camera at the end, is this same camera before he dirtied it up on purpose and reasembled it...
Dude, this is a fake video, it's rusty on the outside but unchanged on the inside, I'm 1000% sure they made it deliberately using chemical means, the inside is perfect but the outer shell looks like it's been soaked in water for a hundred years , I have repaired and owned about 30 Film cameras, I am sure this is a fake video, do not follow the method in the video to repair your camera
Thanks for the entertainment, that was delightful to watch. Have a great day, kind regards from Germany!
Fantastic work! Honorable!!
Beautiful. Very calming.
Greetings from Vienna.
That is both incredible & remarkable, nice work.
Outstanding, and quality work. I would not of thought the camera would work. It did. Thanks for sh
Good job. Precise work
This sound is pleasing to the ear
Really really good!
Awesome! Great work indeed 👌
Excellent restoration!
AMAZING. You are amazing.
This is a great restoration.
Well done you have great skills and patience.
that is just astonishing!
Great job, enjoying to watch. 👍
Beautiful.
Meiko were the maker of the cheapest of Japanese cameras, in Japan they are usually referred as "toy" cameras. They were the kind of camera you would get as a gift if you had very cheap grandparents, or which you could get in America from a comic book ad. Some of them have a bit of value due to their rareness, they have become rare because they were usually thrown away when they stopped working, and most of them stopped working rather quickly.
This is super interesting thank you for the comment!!
Marvelous! Thank you...
Видос снят явно для тех кто любит посмотреть на чудо.Кто занимался этим реально, поймет,что камеру предварительно приукрасили,в ковычках говоря.При внешнем состоянии,внутри должно быть на много хуже.У него и шестерёнки крутятся,и винтики без проблем откручиваются .Видос для просмотров из любопытства.
так он еще и шестеренки со ржавчиной обратно засунул czcams.com/video/7Cjq6Q5bqiI/video.html
Полностью с Вами согласен!
Wow!! very good~!!!
What a great job!
It's a joy to see a camera being healed like this for a new life
It's fake rust dude
@@lucab1733 I know
Awesome video and restoration
Nice restoration! Another film camera on field, great job!
Mate this film camera will not be out on any field he destroyed the lens and from that much grease it will jam within a few weeks 😊
Well!!! Amazing video
Well done. I have so much respect for people who can disassemble, restore and reassemble tiny old complex mechanical devices like watches and cameras. It’s like brain surgery on a gnat.
From the removal and cleaning of every little detail to the replacement of heavily damaged parts, it is all done meticulously and precisely 😀
Love Acros. Amazing video
와~ 이건 정말 말이 안나올 정도로 대단한 실력이네요.
Wow! Amazing!
Simply amazing 👏
This was so great, subscribed!
Wow all that and not a single word was said! Wow!! 👍😲
wow actually impressive
Wow man. Beautiful job. Nice Fuji homage.
Anyway what amazing work you did! Congratulations!
Say wha? There is no way that you can save that...wow. I guess you can! Great work!
я не верил до конца что ЭТО можно заставить работать.. автору - ты Золотые Руки. Лайк однозначно. p.s. Сам восстанавливаю старые объективы, но тут - уровень Бог
Perfect ❤️
This is so good
The encrustacean of gunk does indeed look deliberately applied. Play the video in reverse to see how it was done.
Agreed. If you've ever spent any time at all cleaning or restoring items with significant corrosion; this is not at all what it looks like. And these are not the kind of results you can expect. The top and lens components looked to be covered in "goo" to roughly simulate rust or brass corrosion. That it all wiped off without pitting to reveal a more or less perfect metal surface underneath; is proof positive that this video is a scam.
exactly, as it touched water it released colours immediately and came of with no effort.
Yes, he does a bad fake aging before the “repair”! 🤣
A lot of these restorations are 85% fake. All old zippo-type restorations look like they've been jammed with potting soil. Same with this. Looks like it was smeared with chocolate sauce.
Damn you noticed that as well? It looks like he just painted it to make it look dirty and old. If it looked like that on the outside and inside where the film goes, then how in the hell are all the mechanisms still intact and free? I have cameras that look like this for reals and they’re pretty much toast as everything is frozen up.
Amazing!!!
Hi Guys Wow That Was Great Impressed Iv Never Done A Retro Camera Before Keep It Up Stay Safe All Best M. England.
Thank you for your wonderful effort for making such a great video by restoring that old camera! Was a lot of interesting video to learn how and what type of mechanism was used to use that day! But some how I feel that camera could've deserve a more detailing like using more cleaning against rust, using better quality colour, better cleaning inside the film chamber, little bit of more buffing against scratch etc. Otherwise 👍
It's fake
Fake
I need more old camera repair. This just doesn't exist like this ....well not that I know of.
you professional restoration 👏
love from morrocco
Great job buddy 👍
Great job!!
Very fine restoration. 👍
This was really great
I hope you to keep adding more other videos, subscribed
Thank you so much!
Great job.
Good work. Cheers!
Such a pleasure you did not add a fucking music track!! THANK YOU!
Awesome!
Wonderful ❤️
SPECTACULAR!
Well I think this is an excellent restoration. You know what you are doing with the screws, parts and springs. Yes, the amount of lubricant is way too generous, it can spread and spill. The 50mm lens is of course awful and very likely the back focus (distance from the lens to the film plane) is off, hence the rather soft focus, but you were lucky that there were no missing, broken, highly corroded or worn parts. Anyway: always love watching people restoring or modifying these old all-mechanical cameras (motion picture or still). Great stuff!
Fantastic video.
Awesome
Amazing working congratulations!
Súper...!!..Excelente....de vuelta a la vida ...ji ji ji ji.... Saludossss
What Language is it??
빛 바랜듯한 색감, 조금은 뿌연듯한 화면... 어렸을적 집에 카메라가 없어서 어머님께서 사진사를 불러서 찍어주셨던 기억이 나네요. 카메라도 전화기도 자가용도 없던 시절이었는데 하루종일 친구들과 밖에서 뛰어놀던 시절.
Trabalho MAGNÍFICO.
Phew!!! While you were fixing the lens i had an anxiety attack ... 😄😄😄👍👍
Greaaaaaaaat
greetings to you from Egypt
Amazing work man!! 🙌✨
excelente trabajo. saludos desde Mexico
increible trabajo 👍
This gonna get a million views
Amazing ,...,
Good job
Very very nice work 👌👍