So, I am just going to keep doing cameras for the foreseeable future, and hope business stays steady or picks up. I really like fixing old cameras for people, because it helps me keep them out of the land fill. It also allows me to promote film photography, which is more sustainable than Digital photography. Why you ask? Well virtually all digital cameras are planned to become obsolete, by their makers. The technology is spoon fed to the consumer, and each new feature is marketed as the end all be all, that everyone has to have. And what is this new technology attached to...A glued together, plastic bodied, silver painted, Pertzfal lensed, disposable camera. If you dop it, it stops working, or you just want a new one, you throw it away, and forget it. This is rampant consumerism at its worst. Add to this that the software to run the camera will be made obsolete, with every new version of windows and you have a total pile of crap. The cameras I work on, and own, were made to outlast the companies that made them. They were monuments to the craftsmanship of the workers who put them together, and monuments to the engineers ingenuity that designed them. With proper maintenance the life of many of these cameras will be hundreds of years. Who made these cameras you ask? Zeiss Ikon, Rolleiflex, Leica, Ihagee, and Voigtlander, all made in Germany, not Japan or China! Cost no object cameras that can now be had for 300-500 dollars used! Why on earth would a person buy digital, when they can buy a Leica or Contax and never buy another camera every again?
Well, that may be enough of me on my soapbox for one day.
Thanks for listening, you lovelies.
JAN 09, 2010 06:08 PM
Yay for you and your soapbox!!! I got two old SLR cameras from my dad when he passed away but they desperately need to be cleaned and I'm not even sure if they work. If they were in better condition I might actually try to use them. I won't get rid of them but they are sort just wasting space at this point. I'm torn! I'm glad I can make you smile! 
Embla
HOPEFUL
Sweden
JAN 11, 2010 01:43 AM
Thank you for suporting my set "the morning after"
JAN 15, 2010 07:59 PM
thanks so much for your sweet comment on my set, i truly appreciate it.
you lucky devil, living in portland...i long to move out there. only been once, but it felt like home.
i do miss my old nikkormat...the foam padding around the shutter was disintegrating. my father was going to send it out to be cleaned up, but i don't think he ever did. i believe i snagged his nikon for a while, of course i haven't had the time to use it in ages...i hope someday to have my own house with a darkroom. it always felt so good to develop my film on my own...love the smell of those wretched chemicals.
JAN 18, 2010 03:06 AM
YOK
Denver, CO
September 2008
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JAN 21, 2010 09:48 AM
That's an incredible thing to be able to fix cameras, helping people continue to do something they love by doing something you love in turn. It's history. Thank you for the comment you left on my set a while back! 
JAN 21, 2010 08:31 PM
thank you for your comment on my set
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JAN 29, 2010 03:25 AM
Thanks lovelies! Although it is I that should be thanking all of your for bring such wonderous beauty into my life. Thanks so much.
