Most camera repair shops take in all brands and claim up front they can "do"
that repair. They often scavenge for used parts from junk bodies, even
when parts are available new. Those junk bodies are often donated to the
repair shop and come from retail dealers who have told their customers "that
can't be fixed, you can trade it in toward this one...."
Clint and I service only Olympus. We started at Olympus at approx. the
same time (late 70s) , I was in Woodbury NY, Clint in Dallas (when it was
an Olympus owned shop).
John Hermanson
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----- Original Message -----
From: <Doggre@xxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 9:40 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Old Camera whoas
| In a message dated 5/9/01 11:33:36 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
| coneill@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
|
| >snip
| > However,
| > there's LOTS of other shops that can fix Olympus stuff, our own John
and
| > Clint for instance. As well, there's K&S in Fresno, and Multi Camera &
| > Repair in Arcadia (both in California). I'm sure there's plenty others
| too.
| >snip
|
| That's correct, Chris. I got my broken OM-2S viewfinder replaced in
Seattle
| at Phototronics. They were a little shaky about the parts availability
at
| first, but came through for me. Don't know if they'll do CLAs, but will
find
| out and share that finding with you all.
|
| As you said, it pays to ask around if you get the "beyond repair" or
| "obsolete" comments, or any other negative b.s. from a dealer. Ask at
| ANOTHER dealer. I got a negative comment from one arrogant store owner,
but
| when he walked away, the salesman spoke highly of the OM system, and then
| went out to his car and came back with his Nikon to compare it side by
side
| with the OM-2S. I was impressed with the Nikon (sorry -- somebody slap
me).
| He was obviously impressed with the OM-2S. Those two cameras looked like
| cousins, sitting side by side (O.K., slap me again).
|
| Rich
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