Camera and Photographic Equipment Repairers

Repair and adjust cameras and photographic equipment, including commercial video and motion picture camera equipment.

Job Task

• Fabricate or modify defective electronic, electrical, and mechanical components, using bench lathe, milling machine, shaper, grinder, and precision hand tools according to specifications.
• Recommend design changes or upgrades of micro-filming, film-developing, and photographic equipment.
• Requisition parts and materials.
• Record test data and document fabrication techniques on reports.
• Clean and lubricate cameras and polish camera lenses, using cleaning materials and work aids.
• Measure parts to verify specified dimensions/settings, such as camera shutter speed and light meter reading accuracy, using measuring instruments.
• Lay out reference points and dimensions on parts and metal stock to be machined, using precision measuring instruments.
• Install film in aircraft camera and electrical assemblies and wiring in camera housing, following blueprints, using hand tools and soldering equipment.
• Assemble aircraft cameras, still and motion picture cameras, photographic equipment, and frames, using diagrams, blueprints, bench machines, hand tools, and power tools.
• Read and interpret engineering drawings, diagrams, instructions, and specifications to determine needed repairs, fabrication method and operation sequence.
• Examine cameras, equipment, processed film, and laboratory reports to diagnose malfunction, using work aids and specifications.
• Disassemble equipment to gain access to defect, using hand tools.
• Adjust cameras, photographic mechanisms, and equipment, such as range and view finders, shutters, light meters, and lens systems, using hand tools.
• Calibrate and verify accuracy of light meters, shutter diaphragm operation, and lens carriers, using timing instruments.
• Test equipment performance, focus of lens system, alignment of diaphragm, lens mounts, and film transport, using precision gauges.

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