Stephen Gandy passes his repairs through to someone else, so you'll be
paying more than you should for the repair. I for one, bought one of
Stephen's Olympus RC's, and I've been very happy with it. Given your
investment, I'd feel comfortable sending it to him and feeling that the job
will get done right. His repair person(s) certainly has a lot of
experience on these cameras.
$75-100 is not out of line to have one of these overhauled, cleaned,
re-foamed, and recalibrated for silver batteries. If you get a quote from
somewhere else, make sure that they give you an estimate that includes
disassembling and cleaning the rangefinder. That's where most of the time
is in one of these cameras. They tend to get rather dirty in the
rangefinder. Having the open slot where the film advance is probably
doesn't help keep the dust out.
Skip
At 06:18 PM 9/17/00 -0700, you wrote:
Hope this is the correct list to ask this question....if not, please
direct me in the right direction. For years I have had a fixed focus
XA1, which I love. However, it is no good for focusing on objects closer
than oh...six feet. So yesterday, at a garage sale, I grabbed a 35RC
for five bucks. Looks to be in very good condition.
I need information on using it, and also a battery that will work
reasonably well. An outfit called Cameraquest in Thousand Oaks Calif
offers to recalibrate it for a non mercury battery and do general clean up
for $100. Any thoughts on them, or this work? Also, reportedly, it should
work in a manual mode, with no battery installed, yet it does not seem to
have shutter actuation. Any thoughts?
Thanks for any help, and I hope to enjoy this little camera.
Dave
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