BTW....I've seen his name mentioned often.....who is Clint?
Bruce Kolber
St. Petersburg, FL 33715
USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "John A. Lind" <jlind@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 2:07 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Old Camera whoas
> At 18:20 5/9/01, Clendon Gibson wrote:
> >Recently my non Olympus was declared beyond repair by
> >a local camera repair shop.
>
> Many shops have a flat policy of not working on cameras beyond a certain
> age. Anything older than that is declared non-repairable.
>
> If it is something comparable to an OM-1, OM-1n, AE-1[P], etc., there are
> shops that will work on "vintage" cameras. You just have to find one;
> hopefully that specializes in the make/model. They are around, but
there's
> not a dearth of them. Working on the older gear tends to be a specialty,
> as with John H. and Clint who work on the OM's.
>
> I know of about four or five shops around the U.S. that can still work on
> my 50 year old ZI Contax IIIa. Several repair shops contacted shortly
> after I acquired it told me it has been non-repairable for a long, long
> time. One went on to tell me it should have been chucked into a dumpster
> decades ago for a "real camera," one that's new and modern [plastic] with
a
> googol of features [that I would never use] to do everything for me except
> press the shutter release. An inquiry among the users of them got the
> names of the shops that still repair them. :)
>
> -- John
>
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