Camera companies usually limit their repair services to newer camera and lens models that have plenty of replacement parts in stock, but Nikon is doing something different over in Japan: for a limited time, the company is offering to service your vintage, discontinued manual focus cameras and lenses.
For a fee, Nikon will perform a variety of inspections and adjustments to a range of older 35mm SLR lenses and cameras, including the Nikon F, F2, F3, FM, and Nikkormat.
If you hand over a manual focus SLR camera, here’s the list of 10 things Nikon will do for you:
- Winding mechanism inspection
- Inspection of rewinding mechanism
- Shutter speed inspection
- Exposure accuracy check
- Infinite matching inspection
- Body back check
- Mirror operation check
- Speedlight emission / synchronous inspection
- Appearance Check and replace malt plane
- Appearance cleaning
For manual focus lenses, the checklist includes 7 items:
- Infinite matching inspection
- Distance ring operation check
- Check zoom ring operation
- Aperture ring operation inspection
- Diaphragm blade operation check
- Inside the lens, dust and mold inspection
- Appearance cleaning
The maintenance will be completed in an estimated two to three weeks after the camera is sent to the Nikon Repair Center in Yokohama.
For now, it appears that this offer is available only in Japan, and there’s no word on whether it will be available in other countries. To take advantage of the servicing in Japan, you’ll need to send your camera in before March 31st, 2018.
Image credits: Header photo by Arne List
from PetaPixel https://petapixel.com/2017/12/09/nikon-servicing-vintage-cameras-lenses-japan-limited-time/
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