1979 Minolta XD-5 - Repair and Restore
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- Опубліковано 15 січ 2025
- Minolta XD-5 is produced in 1979. It is one of the XD series cameras and pretty well known for is performance. The best i like about XD series is how quiet the shutter when compare to other camera such as Canon AE-1.
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This guy is not just a ‘next level’ restorer: dude isn’t even playing the same game as the rest of us. Crazy skills.
What?! How does one design, build and repair such equipment? Unbelievable.
Different times before computers took over everything, and real engineering was king.
It makes me very happy to see this camera repaired and restored. These XD series Minoltas are wonderful cameras. You did a fantastic job.
Wonderful! Unparalleled video! This is the most detailed and thorough Minolta XD camera disassembly and repair video I've ever seen. I own 4 Minolta XDs and they have more or less problems, thank you very much! -- Greetings from China
Wow, I tip my hat to you! Often I wonder how much it costs to refurbish these cameras.
I enjoy watching. Its relaxing because of music.
very detailed and excellent image quality... wonderful. I signed up
If the teardown didn't stress me out enough.. rebuilding that shutter was crazy!! Love your work, subbed!
I’ve owned many slr cameras in the past but didn’t realise how incredibly complex they were internally. This undoubtedly the most skillful video I have ever watched. Thankyou.
it looks like and feel like meditation
awesome - nice to see someone finally resurrecting these cameras
Wow It was really a difficult repair. you are a specialist . Nice
Excellent work; restoration and video. Just a couple of comments; It is not advisable to clean the focusing screen with a cotton swab, it is better to do it ultrasonically. And since a long time ago I had to repair several XG-9, X-300, X-700, 7000 and some microcomputers of the time, it is highly recommended at that level to replace all tantalum capacitors, even if they seem to be fine.
I have the XD-7 and it continues to work without problems. Its film/shutter loading system seems to me to be the smoothest of all those I have tried, along with that of the Leica R4 version also manufactured by Minolta. This multi pre-set camera was competition in the early 80s for the Pentax Super A, Canon A1 and Nikon FA, which I have all in my collection.
The damaged vertical travelling shutter in this XD was from SEIKO, while Nikon used a COPAL.
I did my XD-11 almost a year ago, bought on e-Bay spares or repair, not working, with hanging mirror and no shutter release. (It cost me £23 with a 135mm F1:1.35 lens also faulty, Aperture stuck which I repaired in about 30 minutes.
Full shutter CLA it was the mirror release arm sticky grease causing mirror to stick and the shutter just needed a clean same as yours.
When I ran a test roll the film was very overexposed, though shutter speeds were spot on. The cause was the ASA pot wiper had been misconnected on the flexiboard, and I had rewired according to my pre-strip photos. I downloaded the service manual and checked the wiring and found the wiper had been wrongly connected by a previous repair attempt gone wrong. I'm happy to say after a 25 hour repair and fault correction process I have a beautiful example of a camera I couldn't afford while working for Minolta service agents Photopia, in the UK when this camera was in production in the late '70's early '80's.
Superb video, professional and highly competent repair skills, a pleasure to watch.
Liked and Subbed, thank you.
Those capacitors lovely work
love from china! great video!
Amazing work, however I never use a cotton swab to clean a focusing screen, because the micro prisms in the focusing screen can retain the cotton fibers.
The best way is ultrasonic clean in my opinion.
Gracias ,un profesional ,excelente video ,un saludo desde España .
Amazing!
The XD5 is the small brother of the XD7, means subtle feature reduced, and comes only into silver, not black, like the XD7. Otherwise, a swan song of the last metal build Minolta camera. I have mine for >32 years...film is real. Love it to bits. It's a haptic medium, and when you've got 36 frames only, or at best maybe 38, onto some cameras even 40...with a 135-36 roll of 35mm film, you'd think quite more about composition, making it worth, have personal value, than just clicking it happy away trigger happy with digital...and film comes at a price into 2024...a roll of Kodak Ektar 100 is the opposite of cheap, and so is Fujifilm Acros II....
But the XD5 didn't came into 1975 - it was being released into 1979, as a subtle more cost sensitive alternative to the XD7. The XD7 was being named XD into Japan, and XD11 into the US. It's all the same 35mm SLR, different names for different markets into the world. 🙂 A special version was the XD-S with instead of a viewfinder blind, it had a diopter adjustment knob instead.
Great work, lovely to see this XD5 restore !
so cool!
Brutal!!!! congratulations!!!
Excellent work.
I love this type of content!!! Keep it up and you'll be more popular for sure!
Currently, I have a functional Olympus Pen-FT, but it's light meter doesn't work. This gives me a cool insight into how the camera is operating within.
Wow. Amazing job!
Wow, great! I have one of my XD7 at a technician, repairing and restoring as the aperture stop lever don't work as intended. Seeing here what all needs to be done- especially removing the mirror-shutter-cage assembly is like working on a open heart! Fantastic work!
But there is a small error: those XDs came out not before 1977, especially this XD5 must have been after 19978/79 looking at the exposure correction lever.
Where did they manufacture the parts? Amazing attention to detail. Restoration great 👍
Incredible work! Please do Pentax ME Super if you can. Cheers👍👍👍
Amazing!!! Great content, I subscribed straight away. Are you a professional camera technician? Those 70s camera's really were a marvel of engineering and look great 🤗
Is it possible for you, to release a list of things needed for such repairs.
This is great! Would love you see you work on a Canon in the future!
Cool
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What are all the tools needed to repair most cameras? Or at least the more important ones.
Good precision screw drivers,tweezers and lens spanner wrench are the most essential ones. I will post a video about tools later on.
@@VintageResurrection awesome, thanks!
How did you level the focusing screen?
Ive got the XD7 (same model?) It had sluggish shutter press the button and shutter would fire a second or two later Turns out i was the damper piston (on the left side of mount) wasn't running as smooth manage to free it up (there a service note on cleaning it) but my god that long spring that hooks onto the body and attaches to the F stop signal ring was a pain to refit (spring did get crushed abit ). Works nicely now.
I bow with respected to your Repair/Restore skills! Im only brave enough to replace a bad cap or two.
Beautiful work! I have XD7 but the light meter is not working, it is overexposing every shot. What was the issue with light meter in your camera?
Light meter is pretty accurate in that camera. But I am a little bit busy and haven’t tested with real film . I will update with the results soon!
I am completely in awe watching this awesome video … your micro soldering skills are beyond reproach … first class all the way … thank you so very much for sharing your skills in this video … 👍🏻👍🏻🙏🏻🫡
master!
Awesome. How much would it cost to have this done? How long will the camera last at this point?
Do you sell these after?
I have a 1984 Minolta X-370 i need fixing, i did change the Capacitor (Digikey cap alum, 220uf 20% 4V radial) and the battery...still not working...can you and how much ?
Amigo ,you can clean cortinas with Zippo fluid lighter ,i use this with exito .Great ,great work .
Out of curiosity- how much do you charge for such a nice service and restoration? Do you accept orders from abroad?
I do sell some of the CLAed cameras in local market but I usually don’t take order commercially because these camera are mostly 60 years old and not all can be repaired. And also if the camera is not the valuable one, repairing can cost as much as buying the good condition one.
How much for a Fujifilm DL-200?
I don't think I have ever seen on youtube someone goes this deep into opening film cameras.
Just think about, if film cameras would have still be made today, how irreperable would they be with anti-repair trend we have today.
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Where you from sir, Im from India, I love your work, I have yashica mat 124 G. I want complete restored the camera, will you do the job?? Please reply
Sorry to say I am from Thailand
I have enjyed your videos of cameras being repaired. Are you in England? I have a Olympus Pen camera that can not wind film, i have not forced the wind mechanism. I would like to know if you would consider fixing this issue and how much this would cost me. Best wishes.
Sorry I am not in England. I believe there are a lot of repair professionals in England. Hope you get your gear working again!
Amazing!