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Reprints, and scans of manuals can be downloaded
directly from most of these sites. Wherever possible I have selected
sites where downloads can be made for free, however in come cases a
fee may be payable.
The free downloads are of variable quality, but most will be
usable, and some are quite high quality. I cannot comment on paid
downloads, or hardcopies of manuals from any of these sites, as being
half Scottish I can think of better uses for my beer tokens. In any
case many of the 'official' manuals are of little use to the hobby
repairman, and some are not a lot of use to professionals.
Sometimes this is because they refer to proprietary test devices,
which would only be available to franchised repairers, or simply
advise replacement of a whole assembly with a new one. (Which is not
a useful solution when new assemblies are not available.
However, many are invaluable resources often describing set-up
procedures in detail, and circuit diagrams etc. Very useful for
cameras with loose wires.
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| Kim
Coxon's Pentax Repair Manual page. |
Manuals for classic Pentax's. Some very good manuals
available here in freely downloadable PDF format.
Some of the PDF's are password protected for some reason,
but the password is simply 'Pentax'. Personally I don't see
why the password is required, the site author say's that this
is in order to prevent resale on CD on eBay etc, but I don't
see how that would work.
(IMHO there is not a lot of difference between selling a
compilation on eBay and publishing free on the internet.
Strictly speaking both are infringing the copyright.)
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| Alan
Corey's Yashica Manual Scans. |
These are hosted by the site author on his University of
Massachusetts account.
High quality gif images of official assembly diagrams.
Quality is good. Includes Yashica Mat 124G.
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| Kyphoto
Repair Manuals |
Another page from the excellent Kyphoto Site. Good
quality scans.
(Again password protected files! Are they trying to block
hot-linking to the scanned image perhaps?)
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| Yashica
Guy's Lynx rescue. |
As above but Yashica Lynx.
Some repetition but nevertheless.
BTW it's 'silicon' not 'silicone'. One is an element, the
other is a generic term for a bunch of synthetic chemicals.
(Call me picky, but to me it's like trying to listen to
Beethoven played off key!)
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| Alan
Corey's Yashica repair manual |
Actually a hand typed transcription from an actual
Yashica ELectro-X repair manual, but with the spelling
mistakes removed, and translation fixed-up.
Probably better than the real thing!
Not sure I agree with the disclaimer about always breaking
the first camera you ever attempt to repair!
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| Mark Roberts
Photography |
More repair manuals for Pentax, and not password
required.
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| Old Timer Cameras |
Dead link! If anyone knows if this site is hosted elsewhere please mail me! Lot's of manuals, but not free. Even ones you can get for free elsewhere! I haven't actually purchased any manuals from this site, but I would expect to get a high quality document.
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| eServiceInfo |
Yet another K1000 manual! However lots of other general service manuals, available by search from this site. Actually I downloaded the manual here some time back, and it is very detailed. Note: This page may try and download the manual automatically. If it does don't panic, it's not a virus. The files are compressed in .rar format. To unzip them you will need to browse for a suitable program. It shouldn't be hard to find.
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