Leica Camera Repair Handbook

by Thomas Tomosy

With great detail this book outlines all of the techniques needed to repair and restore Leica cameras, lenses, and accessories--including light meters, winders/motors, viewfinders, and flash units.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0936262877
• ISBN13: 9780936262871
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Amherst Media
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 11.1"

Customer Reviews

Leica Camera Repair Handbook, a good book but miss some ....

Leica Camera Repair Handbook is a good book, it is not for begginer or professional, I think it is target for hobbist, but in this book it miss some important things, like how to replace the shutter curtain - a very common problem in old screw mount Leica, it did mention about the rangefinder problem a good plus. I have bought many repair books that wroten by him.

A Fabulous Book Not In Need Of Editorial Superlatives

This book is a fabulous compendium of Leica nuts and bolts and mechanical esoterica, rolled into a little more than 100 pages plus appendices. No, it is not encyclopedic in its coverage, nor would it be practical to aspire to such an objective given the number of pages available. Yet it is difficult to imagine a more concise and engaging source. Personally, I am troubled by promoters and spin doctors, and regret that the editorial billing shown above oversells the capability of any one-volume source. Phrases like "with GREAT DETAIL this book outlines ALL of the techniques needed to repair and restore Leica cameras, lenses..." are plainly implausible in the eyes of any Leica afficionado, given the variety and complexity of the cameras and lenses offered by this superb maker. Yet I was instantly drawn to this book and deeply impressed by the amount of ground that the author covers in a short space. The book is well worth the asking price. On sale, it is a steal.H. Thomas Mitchell

CONCISE IS NOT SUPERFICIAL ! ! !

Thomas Tomosy in response to Mr Zef Basha: You are confusing your terms. Concise is not superficial, in fact, just the opposite is true. An advanced technical text fattened with irrelevant, superficial sentences and paragraphs with obvious platitudes and banalities, fit, at best, for neophytes is what superficial is. My books have been called "stern", "consize", "not much hand-holding," "terse" even "hard-core" but never superficial because they are not. My previous books cover the basic repair methods. If you are a beginner you should have bought one of those. In the present book only specific repair methods are discussed that are relevant to Leica equipment. The description of the book, the table of contents and the introduction tells you exactly what the book is about: Leica bodies, lenses and accessories, 41 items in all. Bodies get the most space, from four to nine pages each. Lenses and accessories get fewer pages, enough to fully describe disassembly, repair, cleaning and adjustments. That's all, no padding. Had you read the book, you would know that there are information on every page that is unique and you would be hard put to find anywhere else. You owe and apology, not to me but to your fellow Leica lovers whom you dissuaded from buying a useful Leica repair manual. Thomas Tomosy, author