Synchro-Compur-X (Contaflex Super BC) service manual

[BernardL]

I'm looking for the service manual in the title. I do have the service manual for the Contaflex Super B (non-TTL Selenium light meter); and that does not cover the internals of the shutter. I do have the service manual for the Synchro-compur of some Rollei camera, which proved useful in the overhaul of a Contaflex II.

But the Contaflex Super BC (CdS meter, TTL) has so many bells and whistles! and some of them are handled inside the shutter assembly itself. After dis-assembling the first two layers I see this (photo below) quite un-familiar and prefer to gather information before making an irreversible mistake. To be explicit, I'm striving to eliminate a very small amount of play in the optics, that degrades the images, and that my fingers can feel in the center element.

So: could someone please provide me the service manual for that specific shutter? Thank you for reading.

Disclosure: similar post on photrio. I double post because I have in the past noted that there are on RFF some contaflex gurus that I've never seen on photrio.

 

[ddutchison2]

I seem to remember a group of retired professional camera techs unanimously agreeing that there was nothing more insanely complex to work on that a Zeiss Contaflex, I admire your sand. That said, if you are unaware of this resource, have a look through the LearnCameraRepair website's catalog of manuals. This is their Zeiss page

Zeiss and Zeiss Ikon | Service Manuals | Learn Camera Repair

This section covers German-made Zeiss-Ikon, Contaflex, Contax, Contarex, etc. For the later Contax SLRs made in Japan by Kyocera-Yashica, see the Contax-Yashica section. For the Zeiss lenses made for Hasselblad cameras, see the Hasselblad section.

learncamerarepair.com

They also have a FaceBook page where you can get answers to specific questions

 

[Freakscene]

I seem to remember a group of retired professional camera techs unanimously agreeing that there was nothing more insanely complex to work on that a Zeiss Contaflex, I admire your sand.

The Contarex is definitely worse. But these are plenty bad enough.

 

[BernardL]

I seem to remember a group of retired professional camera techs unanimously agreeing that there was nothing more insanely complex to work on that a Zeiss Contaflex, I admire your sand. That said, if you are unaware of this resource, have a look through the LearnCameraRepair website's catalog of manuals. This is their Zeiss page

Zeiss and Zeiss Ikon | Service Manuals | Learn Camera Repair

This section covers German-made Zeiss-Ikon, Contaflex, Contax, Contarex, etc. For the later Contax SLRs made in Japan by Kyocera-Yashica, see the Contax-Yashica section. For the Zeiss lenses made for Hasselblad cameras, see the Hasselblad section.

learncamerarepair.com

They also have a FaceBook page where you can get answers to specific questions

Thank you. I already have a clean and free copy of the Zeiss Contaflex Super/SuperB service manual. But in the Zeiss documentation the Synchro-Compur shutter is a "part" like any of the small screws of the rest of the camera (except distance scale, guide number scale and a few other). The shutter is documented by Deckel, along with many variants supplied to various camera manufacturers. I now have the Deckel document.
Maybe I'm insane; I already completed a Contaflex II overhaul, down to shutter and aperture blades. But the Super BC is yet something else. That camera has everything: auto/manual exposure, TTL metering, split-image and microprism focusing, "magic" distance-aperture coupling for flash. The camera body CLA is done; as I wrote, I need to hunt down and eliminate a small amount of slack in the optics, causing dual images maybe 0.1mm apart in the focal plane.