All materials are in PDF format and include a jewel case. For orders to the United States, Canada, or Mexico, add $2.00 for shipping and handling unless you're ordering multiple CD's or other items at the same time. Then please see, Ordering Instructions (a CD counts as one item). For other countries, please add $5.00 for shipping and handling for one CD or $8 shipping and handling for multiple CD's.

          Tutorial Series     Collector's Series     Operator's Manuals      Menu Examples
                                      Still Cameras
                                      Movie Cameras
                                      Movie Projectors
                                      Electronic-Flash Units
 

Why CD's rather than printed copies? For one thing, we can use color images in a CD. Also a CD costs us less to produce and to ship. So you pay less.                    

Original tutorials prepared by the same people who wrote many of the National Camera lesson materials as well as many service guides, repair manuals, Camera Craftsman articles, SPT Journals, and Fargo Enterprise manuals. Topics that say they're for Windows™ (purple type) include a menu to make the CD easier to navigate (see the example at the bottom of this page—the menus don't all work exactly like this one, but each one facilitates finding your way around in the CD) . The other CD's just contain the PDF files that only require Acrobat Reader™.  Click here for a sample PDF from the Synchro-Compur 00-MXV CD. The sample may be slightly different than the page in the actual CD because we've replaced the TIF's with JPEG's for faster loading.

RGCD. Basic Camera-Repair Guides. For hobbyists, collectors, and beginners in camera repair. All the general articles that originally appeared the tutorials section of our site plus three new guides. Since the guides are in PDF format (rather than one continuous HTML page as in our online tutorials), you can print them without losing pictures or information. Included on the CD: Adjusting Focus, Curtain-Travel Time (plus travel-time tables), Diaphragm Installation, General Repair Tips, Cleaning Tips, Cleaning Optics, Lubricating Camera Mechanisms (the text for the illustration at the right says to lubricate the wind gears with shutter oil, but don't lubricate the clutch gears, or "spill gears"—oil on the clutch gears will result in erratic shutter speeds), & Testing Shutter Speeds—all designed for entry-level and intermediate level repair technicians. Mouse over the above image for an illustration from Curtain-Travel Times. Written and illustrated by former National Camera instructors. 75 total pages, most of the illustrations in color. For Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP, Vista. $17.50.

CAN101. Canon AE-1 repair manual update. A new CD providing update information for the AE-1 Workbook. The CD adds color wiring pictorials of the old-style and new-style circuits, standard repairs (how to silence the mirror-operation squeak, how to replace the battery door, etc.), updates to procedures, design changes, the short adjustment procedure, and troubleshooting. Paired with the AE-1 Workbook, the CD provides a complete repair manual.  Color photos and wiring pictorials. For Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP, Vista. We provide the CD  with the Workbook at no extra charge (see, Combination Packages).  But if you already have the Workbook, you can purchase the CD individually. CAN101—$11.50.

COP101. Copal Leaf-Type Shutters repair manual. An original Infotech step-by-step tutorial covering the Copal-MXV (21 pages, 49 color illustrations). Includes operation, disassembly, reassembly, lubrication, adjustments, troubleshooting. The shutter illustrated is from a Yashica-Mat (see YACD101 in the Collectors' Series and YACD102 in the Tutorial Series for information on the Yashica-Mat). Mouse over the photo at right for a view of the mainspring and cocking-lever spring positions. Added from the NatCam archives—an exploded drawing of the sync section in the Copal-MXV (hand-drawn). Also includes the NatCam Servisheet #534 on the Copal #0 (46 pages, 86 B&W illustrations) originally prepared for the National Camera training program (this Servisheet is also available in printed form—see Special Publications). The tutorials assume a basic knowledge of shutter design, cleaning, and lubrication—if you need more information on these subjects, see, Basic Camera Repair Guides RGCD above.  For Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP, Vista. $11.50.

 RET101. Kodak Retina Ib (Type 018) repair manual. An original Infotech step-by-step tutorial covering the Kodak Retina Ib. Ten sections—Basics of the Ib, Removing the Shutter, Removing the Covers, Lens Standard, Helical Focus Mount, Cocking Rack, Operation of the Wind Mechanism, Disassembly of the Wind Mechanism, Adjustments, Troubleshooting.  Describes repairs for a cloudy viewfinder, stiff focusing, damaged cocking rack, etc. 48 pages, over 100 color images. Covers removing and timing the shutter, but not the disassembly and repair of the shutter—the Synchro-Compur 00-MXV shutter is covered in a separate CD (CCD103 above). The tutorial assumes a basic knowledge of shutter design, cleaning, and lubrication—if you need more information on these subjects, see, Basic Camera Repair Guides RGCD above. For Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP, Vista. $9.50.

ROL101. Rolleiflex 4x4 (Gray Baby) repair manual. An original Infotech step-by-step tutorial with 38 pages and 99 color illustrations, written by the same person who wrote the National Camera lesson texts on the Rolleiflex 2.8F. Covers operating instructions, disassembly, focus and parallelism adjustments, operation of the film-transport system, adjustments in the film-metering  and transport mechanisms, troubleshooting. For Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP, Vista. Click here for a sample page. Mouse over the image at the right for a view of the film-transport mechanism. For instructions on the Synchro-Compur 00-MXV shutter, see CCD103 (above). For the factory manual, see, RCD101in the collector's series. The tutorial assumes a basic knowledge of camera design, cleaning, and lubrication—if you need more information on these subjects, see, Basic Camera Repair Guides RGCD above. $15.50.

SCD101. Seiko #1 653E Shutter repair manual. An Infotech step-by-step tutorial on the shutter used in the Mamiya RB67 (17 pages, 37 color pictures). Disassembly, reassembly, lubrication, adjustments. Also included—the Mamiya Parts and Service Manual on the Seiko #1(23 pages—very good information on revisions) and the Seiko #1 653E Parts Manual (9 pages of exploded drawings, 13 pages overall. The tutorial assumes a basic knowledge of shutter design, cleaning, and lubrication—if you need more information on these subjects, see, Basic Camera Repair Guides RGCD above. For Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP, Vista. $9.50.

Several years ago, National Camera started providing factory repair & parts manuals on microfiche—this made it affordable for independent technicians to own the factory manuals. Since the CD has nearly replaced the microfiche as a medium for storing information, we are now converting our microfiche library to CD (but we still provide the microfiche if that's your preference). Please note that many PDF's of factory manuals are available for free download from sites such as Favorite Classics (see our links page). We do not make CD's of current products or of manuals that are still available from the manufacturers. National Camera originally arranged to duplicate factory manuals for the microfiche program.

Our scans were made and retouched in-house from the original factory printed manuals—not from the microfiche. Rather than using the bookmarks, we've added contents pages to some CD's that key to the thumbnails (unless the page numbers already match the thumbnails). You can then quickly access a page by using the Go To Page command or by clicking on a thumbnail.Or, those that say they're for Windows™ (purple type) include a menu to make the CD easier to navigate (see the example at the bottom of this page—the menus don't all work exactly like this one, but each one facilitates finding your way around in the CD) . The other CD's just contain the PDF files that only require Acrobat Reader™.  Note that these are factory service manuals—not do-it-yourself books. They were written for camera-repair technicians.  Several CD's include instructional materials from the National Camera archives; these materials, when included, are described in green type.

Still cameras

 Movie cameras

Movie projectors

Electronic Flash
See Craftsman for more information on electronic-flash units including general operation and troubleshooting.

Operator's Manuals on CD
National Camera also had several operator's manuals (user's manuals) in the archives. As with the repair manuals, we only provide CD's for vintage cameras—we don't copy manuals you can still obtain from the camera companies. Perhaps these manuals will be of use to someone who's using or working on the classics. We'll add these manuals as we get them transferred to CD. Now available:

OPKOD1	Kodak Retina IIIS. 31 pages counting covers. This CD includes Kodak's update for the Retina IIIS and the Retina Reflex S as well as the three correction pages (received by National Camera in 1955).	$5.50
OPNOR1	Norita 66. 18 pages. The CD also includes the Norita 66 Sales Brochure which contains a lot of information on the Norita camera system. If you need repair information on the Norita, see Workbooks (Graflex Norita).	$5.50
OPROL1	Rolleiflex 4x4 (Gray Baby). 36 pages counting covers. The CD also includes the 2-page data sheet for the Rolleiflex 4x4. For repair information, see ROL101 in the tutorial series and RCD101 in the collector's series.	$5.50
OPROL2	Rollei 35. 24 pages counting covers. In English and in German. For repair information on the Rollei 35, see Workbooks.	$5.50
OPWES1	Weston Master III Exposure Meter. 24 pages counting covers. For repair information on Weston meters, see Valera	$5.50
OPYAS1	Yashica-Mat. 18 pages counting covers. For repair information on Yashica-Mat, see YACD103 and YACD103 in the tutorial series and YACD101 in the collector's series.	$5.50

Here's an example of one menu route to finding where that red wire goes (this is the menu from the Minolta XE CD). First we select Service Manual from the main menu. Note: Only the CD's marked, "For Windows... "use the menus.	In this example, we get the service-manual submenu. Now we select Wiring Pictorial. Of course the actual menus and PDF's are much sharper (and much larger). We shot these menus from the screen.	Now we've located the wiring pictorial. We can make it smaller to see the entire page. Or zoom in on the section we want. If we open Thumbnails, a red frame shows us the area of the complete page that we're viewing.