Contax AX mirror slip …

Deja-vue … this time I had the same issue with my Con­tax AX as with my Con­tax RX some time ago.

The mir­ror has slipped down about 3–4 mili­meters over time due to bad glue, loos­ing it’s adhes­ive qual­ity over time.

Due to this, the mir­ror crashes onto the lens rear ele­ment and hangs in upper pos­i­tion.

I tried the same kind of repair and … let’s see how it works.

This brand was so expens­ive in it’s era … shame on you Con­tax for using such a poor glue.

Enjoy 🙂

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4 Responses to “Contax AX mirror slip …”

  1. Jim Grey says:
    2017-10-20 at 18:21

    It sure is frus­trat­ing when you dis­cov­er poor qual­ity aspects of an expens­ive piece of gear. Espe­cially when you bought it new. I’m per­son­ally more for­giv­ing when it hap­pens to some­thing I bought used, espe­cially when I got a bar­gain on it.

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    • rgiw says:
      2017-10-20 at 19:09

      Thanks Jim, I know what you mean.
      I bought it used, but fully func­tion­ing.

      As long as no dam­age remains (by mir­ror hit­ting rear lens ele­ment) and as long as an “easy” repair is pos­sible (where I do not really like work­ing on such a hi-tech machine) all should be good.

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  2. Frank Lehnen says:
    2017-10-31 at 16:09

    I found out after long years of buy­ing, selling re-buy­ing and re-selling cam­er­as that it’s far more accept­able for a cheap cam­era to f… up on me than for a premi­um cam­era.

    Once I had my ‘new’ Ricoh GR1’ quit on me after only 5 rolls of film I quickly sold my Con­tax Tvs too.…

    My Olymous XA2 still going strong, and if ever it will fail… well for 45 € I’ll get anoth­er one!

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