Article: Ifbaflex m102 or Voigtlander VSL 1 Shutter Repair

[Hamish Gill]

Ifbaflex m102 / Voigtlander VSL 1 Shutter Repair

Some of you might remember my excitement at buying this camera, shortly followed by my disappointment at it not working when I got it ...
Well I fixed it!
Here is a rather dull video on how I managed it

[video=youtube_share;_9du_FNNSTg]http://youtu.be/_9du_FNNSTg[/video]

I certainly wouldn't recommend poking around in the bottom of a camera with a screwdriver, but if you have nothing to loose, it seems worth a go

 

[Pete Askew]

Worth £70 any day!! Nice.

 

[Ben Jennings]

Nice to see I'm not the only one who buys duff cameras and then has a fiddle about trying to fix them. Good effort!

 

[Hamish Gill]

to be honest Ben, its seeing you have a go that has given me the confidence to try it my self!

To be fair to the repairers, they have a flat rate ... but this really would have been a nice job for them!

 

[Paul Lange]

Nice one Hamish. Is the camera a bit of a cult classic cor something?

 

[Hamish Gill]

not really, pretty rare though... 1 of 1000 as far as i know!
The voigtlander VSL is a little more common which is exactly the same camera with a different badge!
both were made by rollei