Canon P with slow speeds off ... who to send it to

[raid]

I have a Canon P that I have been using heavily. Last evening I was trying out each shutter speed (without film in the camera), and i was surprised to find the slower speeds varying from trial to trial. Sometimes, the shutter speed 1/4 sounded good to my ears and then in a following trial it would sound way too fast. If I set the speed to B and fire the shutter and then return to a non_b slow speed, it sounds fine. Is a CLA for such a problem costly? Who would you recommend?

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

I *think* that DAG also works on Canon rangefinders; give him (Don) a chime: dag <at> chorus <dot> net

 

[butch]

Raid, I used Mark Hama. He's in Georgia (USA). Charged circa, $150.00. Was pleased but the camera was not corrected for a dragging curtain. The bad thing was that this was not discovered until after I sold the body to one of this forum. My buyer was able to return it to Mark under his 6 months warranty. I have not heard the out come, but maybe the buyer will see this post and give an update.

 

[back alley]

i'm willing to bet that you will like the camera even more after a good cla.
brighter vf with less flare along with correct shutter speeds.

 

[doubs43]

Raid, I used Mark Hama. He's in Georgia (USA). Charged circa, $150.00.

Mark recently quoted $165 + $12 shipping for a CLA on a Leica IIIf RD ST so $150 is definitely ball park. Mark has a good reputation on other forums and is reputed to be especially good with the Pentax SLR. I believe that he was factory trained on the Pentax cameras and worked on them at the factory in Japan.

Walker

 

[wlewisiii]

I'll second the recommendation for DAG. He's done excellent work for me and I intend to continue to use him.

Walker, Mark Hama used to work for Yashica, not Pentax. There is a picture of him on his web site assembling IIRC a 124G at the factory.

William

 

[raid]

Thanks for all the responses here. I have used both DAG for lenses (he now has a Summicron 50 lens and a Zeiss 50 lens in LTM for CLA) and Mark Hama for my Rolleiflex TLR. In this case, I went over to my local camera repair person first. He fired off the camera and it sounded right. He told me that most likely the slow speeds were not correct initially because I had not used for quite some time. For the being, he suggested I should just use the camera.