by Ferdi Stutterheim
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| Photograph of Rolleiflex T "White-face". Photo © Emmanuel Bigler. Photo used with permission. |
In the following list I will mention some addresses to send your Rolleiflex TLR to for a CLA (Clean, Lubricate and Adjust) or for special treatment like lens re-coating. The names were put forward by members of the Rollei List, the Rollei Users Group and other reliable friends with first hand experience. I have no relationship with any repair shop on this list. Some shops are well established and have a splendid reputation backed by a great number of loyal patrons. From time to time new repair shops are added. Occasionally one is removed. If you want to know why an entree was dropped, send me an e-mail. Most of the time the repairman retired. The order in which shops were listed used to be a bit hap-hazardly. Official repair shops used to precede non-official shops and then it was more or less "first come, first listed". As the list grew this appeared troublesome. On one hand because "official" and "non-official" was difficult to distinguish with a manufacturer going bankrupt from time to time. On the other hand some people assumed the first listed shop would be the best. I needed a fair and simple listing system. An alphabetic listing by country seems fair but turned out not to be that simple. The alphabetical order is by the first significant word of the company name or by surname of a person if no company name is known. So: Mr. Jurgen Kuschnik is listed under "K" (surname, no company name), Mr. Greg Weber of Weber Camera under "W" (company name) and Mr. Paul Ebel of Paul Ebel Lens Service under "P" (company name).
Off course there will be others who would do a good job on your Rollei. In general I would suggest that you send your TLR to a person who has ample experience with Rollei TLRs. They are pretty complicated cameras. Your´s would not be the first camera that has to be rescued after a first time Rollei "repairer" has botched up a job.
I am in more or less regular contact with some of the listed repair shops. Of others I know they are still in business. From some of them I have not heard in years since being recommended. In general visit the websites or contact the repair shop first to check the services on offer and the address, before sending any equipment to the addresses published underneath. Please, please, allow for the difference in Time Zone before making a phone call. Any particulars I know are added to their entry in the list. If you feel you should contact me before or after a repair, do not hesitate to do so.
Sargon Evanian
220 Fairfield Street
Fairfield NSW 2165
Australia
Phone: +61 2 9724 71 27
Mr. Evanian works in Australia as a Rolleiflex technician since 1964.
Fototechnik Kleinert
E. Baumgartnerstrasse 12
A 5020 Salzburg
Austria
Phone: +43 662 84 57 00
Mr. Harry Müller
Ahumada 312 of. 402
Santiago de Chile
Chile
Phone: 56-2-698-3596
Mr. Müller accepts jobs from South and Central America.
Listed is in alphabetical order based on the (significant part of the company) name:
Atelier 102
10, rue Nicolas Appert
F-75011 PARIS
Phone: (+33) (0)1 48 06 58 08
Fax: (+33) (0)1 48 06 94 03
Independant repair shop specialized in classic Rollei cameras. Close to Bastille Square.
Mr. Gérard Métrot
Atelier GMS
GM services
27, rue des Pinsons
F-94000 CRETEIL
Phone: (+33) 3 (0) 1 77 23 58 90
Mobile: (+33) 3 (0) 6 16 23 85 19
URL:
http://www.ateliergms.com/
Mr. Métrot is the former owner and chief technician of Photo Suffren. While officially
retired he and his company GM Services still work as a repair facility under the name Atelier GMS.
Leica, Rolleiflex, Nikon, mechanical shutters service and repair. No cars please. ;-)
Ateliers Photo Cine MS
3, rue Charles Baudelaire
F-75012 Paris
Phone: (+33) (0)1 44 75 73 73
Fax: (+33) (0)1 43 44 25 40
e-mail: SAV.Rollei@photocinems.fr
URL:
http://www.photocinems.fr/
Official Rollei Service representatives in France.
Service of Rollei MSC twin series slide projectors only.
Photo Suffren
45, avenue de Suffren
F-75007 Paris
Phone: (+33) (0)1 45 67 24 25
Fax: (+33) (0)1 47 83 78 68
e-mail: info@photosuffren.com
photosuffren1@orange.fr
URL:
http://www.photosuffren.com/
Sales and service of classic and vintage
Rolleiflexes since 1929 including the SL66/E/X/SE. Braunschweig factory trained technician.
Not far from the Eiffel Tower. Métro La Motte Picquet Grenelle or Dupleix.
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| Photograph of Rolleiflex T "White-face". Photo © Emmanuel Bigler. Photo used with permission. |
Listed is in alphabetical order based on the (significant part of the company) name:
Werksservice
DHW-Fototechnik GmbH
Salzdahlumer Strasse 196
D 38126 Braunschweig, Germany
Phone +49 531 6800425 (Service Hotline, Mo - Fr 9.00 - 15.00h GMT+1, GMT+2 when Summer Time)
e-mail: Ms. Manilla Brauner
General
Phone +49 531 6800100
Fax +49 531 6800295
e-mail: info@dhw-fototechnik.de
URL:
http://www.dhw-fototechnik.de/
Sales
Ms. Katharina Hartje
Phone: +43 531 6800348
e-mail: Ms. Katharina Hartje
URL e-bay shop:
http://shop.ebay.com/dhw-fototechnik/m.html
DHW-Fototechnik continues the production and service of certain Rolleiflex
products including the FX, FT, FW, Hy6 and lenses for the System 6000/Hy6.
Mr. Jürgen Kuschnik
Landgraf-Philipp-Strasse 55
D 60431 Frankfurt am Main
GERMANY
Phone +49 (0) 69 530 87 281
Cell/Handy +49 (0) 1634768585
Calling from the U.S. 001 49 6953087281
e-mail: jurgenkus@yahoo.com
URL:
http://www.jurgenkuschnik.com
Mr. Kuschnik has worked with Rollei in Braunschweig, Germany for 14 years and in the
Rollei of America Head Office in New Jersey and the Service Centres in California and
Colorado as well. He repairs all Rollei cameras (including SL66E and SL66SE cameras)
except SLX and the 6000 series. Mr. Kushnik has also been trained to repair Hasselblad,
Bronica and Mamiya cameras.
Mr. Dieter Paepke
Paepke-Fototechnik GmbH & Co. K.G.
Rather Broich 57
D 40472 Düsseldorf
Phone +49 211 98 68 88 0
Fax +49 211 98 68 88 29
e-mail: paepke-fototechnik@gmx.de
URL:
http://www.paepke-fototechnik.de
Official Rollei Sales and Service (Vertragswerkstätte), all classic and modern cameras
and slide projectors. Official Leica Service (products later than 1939). Metz Service.
Mr. Hans Klinkhamer
De Kamera
Batavenstraat 47
7041 VA `s-Heerenberg
The Netherlands
Telephone +31 314 668755
e-mail: dekamera@hetnet.nl
URL: http://www.dekamera.com/
Visitors by appointment only, please.
Hans is maintaining and repairing all Rollei cameras (including 2000F, 3001 and 3003), lenses and
slide projectors. Hans does not repair compact cameras, electronic flash units and
the electronics of the SLX and 6000-series. He does accept SLX and 6000-series cameras
for repair but if the problem turns out to be electronic rather than mechanical he will
have to send them out.
Mr. Will van Manen & Ms. Cathy Kuiper
Will van Manen Kamera-Service vof
Dorpsstraat 81
2712 AD Zoetermeer
The Netherlands
Telephone +31 79 316 3339
e-mail: kamera-service@ziggo.nl
URL:
http://www.kamera-service.info/
Rolleiflex, Hasselblad and Leica repair and maintenance.
Schönherrs Foto
Upplandsgatan 16
113 60 Stockholm
Telephone 08-327647
URL:
http://www.schonherrsfoto.se
Schönherrs will send the Rolleiflex out to a skilled repairman who lives in Sweden.
Rollei Rep'service Baumgartner Otto
Meierhofrain 24
CH 8820 Wädenswil
Switzerland
Phone/Fax +41 44 780 55 15
"Dealing with Mr. and Mrs. Baumgartner is also entering a time machine, back to the
perfect and polite Switzerland of the 50s." (customer comment).
Mr. Brian Mickleboro,
6 Fairway
Bishop's Stortford
Herts, CM23 5LT
e-mail: bjmick@aol.com
Phone 01279 755862
Formerly of The Studio Workshop, London. Mr. Mickleboro is factory trained and has 30-40
years of experience in servicing Rollei cameras.
Listed is in alphabetical order based on the (significant part of the company) name:
Mr. Mark Hansen
Classic Camera Repair
3585 S.E. Franklin St.
Portland, OR 97202-1828
Telephone: unkown
e-mail: ClassicCamera@comcast.net
URL:
http://www.zeissikonrolleirepair.com/
Mr. John van Stelten
Focal Point, Inc.
300 Center Drive
Suite G-177
Superior, CO 80027
Telephone (303) 665-6640
e-mail: john@focalpointlens.com
URL:
http://www.focalpointlens.com
Focal Point specialises in anti-fungus treatment of lens surfaces, lens re-cementing and
re-coating. That is the reason they are still listed here. They no longer service or repair
camera bodies.
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| Photograph of Krimar Photo Shop © 2005 S. Liu taken with a 1932 Rolleiflex Standard fixed by Krikor. Photo used with kind permission. |
Mr. Krikor Maralian
Krimar Photo Shop
105-B (Route 4) Broadway
Elmwood Park, NJ 07407
Telephone (201) 796-0554
e-mail: Mr. Maralian prefers to be contacted by telephone.
URL:
http://www.krimarphoto.com
Since January 2005, Krimar Photo Shop of Elmwood Park, NJ is the official Rollei repair service
for older models in the US market.
Krimar has taken over from Marflex Camera Repair, which has serviced the
Classic Rollei over the past two decades. Krikor Maralian, owner of
Krimar and Head Technician at Marflex, has nearly 50 years of Rollei repair
service experience, and a superb reputation in the business. Besides 23
years at Marflex, Krikor trained at the Rolleiflex factory for three
years, with an 8 year stint at Rollei/Africa, and eight years at
Rollei/USA.
Mark Hama, Ltd.
2675 Earl Drive
Marietta, GA 30062
Telephone (770) 565-1498
Fax (770) 977-5078
e-mail: markhama@comcast.net
URL: http://www.markhama.com
Mr. Hama worked at Yashica in Nagano, Japan, where he started building the Mat 124G. He is the
leading expert for servicing Yashicas. He services Rolleiflexes too.
Mr. Bill Maxwell
Maxwell Precision Optics
P.O. Box 33146,
Decatur, GA 30033-0146,
U.S.A.
Telephone (404) 244-0095
e-mail:maxwellprecisionoptics@toast.net
URL:
Maxwell Precision Optics
Mr. Maxwell provides focusing screens for new and classic Rolleiflex and other cameras.
Mr. Harry Fleenor
Oceanside Camera Repair
909 Aviation Blvd, #4
Manhattan Beach, Ca 90266, U.S.A.
e-mail: harry@rolleirepairs.com
URL:
http://www.rolleirepairs.com
Mr. Fleenor is servicing Rolleiflex cameras since 1966, including 15 years of that time in
the Rolleiflex factory service centres of Honeywell and Rollei of America. He is repairing the
Rolleiflex TLRs (including Rolleiflex 2.8 F, 3.5 F, Rolleiflex 2.8 E-3, 2.8 E-2, 2.8 E, 2.8 D,
2.8 C, 2.8 B, 2.8 A,
Rolleiflex 3.5 E-3, 3.5 E-2, 3.5 E, 3.5, Automat X, 3.5 Automat MX, Automat MX E-V,
Tele Rolleiflex, Wide-Angle Rolleiflex,
Rolleicord Vb, Va, V, IV, and Rolleiflex T, Rollei SL66, Rollei 35.
Maxwell bright screens installed.
Mr. Paul Ebel
Paul Ebel Lens Services
420 21st Street North Suite #2
PO Box 141
Menomonie, WI 54751
Telephone (651) 335-8759
e-mail: paulebel144@yahoo.com
Mr. Ebel received positive feed-back from many customers.
Pro Camera Service
2965 East Hillcrest Dr., Suite #302
Thousand Oaks, CA 91362
Telephone (805) 497-7240
Fax (805) 497-0826
e-mail: camera@procamera.net
URL:
http://www.procamera.net
Karl is their Rolleiflex specialist. He worked at the former Rollei of America
service facility at El Segundo where both Harry and Jürgen worked with him.
Danielle Inc.
Rollei & Hensel Service
1275 Bloomfield Avenue
Building 8, Unit 68
Fairfield, NJ 07004
Phone: (973) 244 9662
Fax: (973) 244 9817
e-mail: info@danielleinc.us
Last known address in the U.S.A. for official System 6000 service.
Mr. Greg Weber
Weber Camera
2022 E. 7th St
Fremont, NE 68025-1615
Telephone (402) 721-3873
Fax (402) 721-3838
e-mail: gweber@webercamera.com
URL: http://www.webercamera.com
Mr. Weber is a Konica specialist. He also accepts Rolleiflex repairs.
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