CLA?

You see the term CLA thrown around quite a bit in the analogue photography worlds, in reference to equipment. It means, literally, Clean, Lube, Adjust – meaning a service by someone qualified to do such things. Just making sure everything is in working order.
With my mum’s camea, it was a $350 job and the camera and lens was taken apart and re-lubed and cleaned out of 20 years of dust and dirt that’d built up in her travels around the hemisphere. Even the cloth shutter housing was dismantled.
A more standard, cheap CLA, might cost you $25 and involve little more than a once over with a microfiber cloth to clean up the external dust. It can be safer to specify to your repair person exactly what you want done – dismantle and clean the prism housing, this bit here feels stiff to move, re-lube that – and so on.
As always though, you get what you pay for. If you’re not paying much, dont expect much, most repair people work on an hourly rate.

This entry was posted in Thinkin'. Bookmark the permalink.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

*

You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>