Contax T rangefinder compact camera needs repair, help

[kram]

Hi, is there any know place which can fix my Contax T. I have moved house and during the move, the camera must have been joltted and the shutter no longer trips, no LCD frame count numbers, or meter rrading. The shutter 'clicks', and I can wind on to the next frame but the shutter does not open. The rangefinder is fine so the knock it received would not have been that hard. I am based in the UK.

 

[Agiknee]

Nippon Photo in NYC works on contax stuff. Pretty sure they’re the last authorized repair people in the USA.

 

[shawn]

I'd try a battery change first. The somewhat common failure point on the Contax T's is that the shutter never actually opens but that the LCD frame counter, metering display and everything else still seemed to work OK. My understanding is that service for them is rare as parts are unavailable.

Shawn

 

[Nitroplait]

You are in the UK. Try this guy:
https://contaxrepairs.com

 

[kram]

🙁I had checked the UK guy out, he can't do the compact cameras

 

[trianbampol]

PPP Cameras should be able to help you out.

https://pppcameras.co.uk

 

[Highway 61]

Unfortunately, the Contax T is as unreliable as it is beautiful. It can stop working for no reason even if very cared of, and a possible jolt during the move might not be responsible of the failure. Most of the time, it's because of the CPU "death". Good luck with yours.

 

[kram]

I have had the camera for a number of years.There was a querkbwith it but I found a work round. If you wound the camera on and left if for a while the shutter would not trip. If you just wound on a few minutes before hand, it worked fine. A repairer the T2/T3 says he does not see the T, thinks it is more reliable than the latter models...

 

[Peter_S]

Check with http://www.ffs-tritec.de/index.php/reparaturservice/contax-reparatur.html (Germany).

 

[kram]

Cheers, have done now will wait for a reply.

 

[rangefinderlove123]

Tritec have stopped servicing Contax cameras unfortunately.

The only people I could think of are Sendean in central london, Clerkenwell:
https://www.sendeancameras.co.uk/

Unless this camera is really sentimental to you, I would suggest to give up on it as Sendean will most certainly rinse you of your money.

 

[valdas]

Tritec have stopped servicing Contax cameras unfortunately.

Yes, I contacted them maybe two years ago regarding a G2 issue - “ sorry, no spare parts” was the reply.

 

[kram]

Rejoice, I was preparing to send it off to ppp and giving the camera a once over by putting in new batteries although current ones are in excess of 1.5v each. Contacts are clean but I bent up the internal battery tag in the body. And lo...the T is back in action. Put back in old batteries, no good. So new batteries and ensuring the battery contact tags have not compressed over the years to stop good battery contact. I might put a colour film in rather than the normal B&W to celebrate... As my old pa would say KISS.