Who among us would not want to work there, given the abundance of measuring instruments, tools, experience and know-how available?
No me. I am done with working for anybody. My time is my own now and I like it that way.
What if you imagined it was your private workshop for your own work?
No me. I am done with working for anybody. My time is my own now and I like it that way.
What if you imagined it was your private workshop for your own work?
I have bad mechanical karma lately. And I'd rather be shooting than repairing. What I do appreciate is professional, competent technicians, though their number seems to be rapidly waning. Along with parts. Someone with a private workshop like that is of no use to me.
There are countless original spare parts in broken or no longer needed photo equipment. You just have to remove them.
I can therefore only recommend taking advantage of offers and never throwing anything away, because you might need a certain part the next day that you hadn't even thought of.
Generally there tend to be parts that fail in all cameras of a certain design, a weak ink. Those will not usually be found in working order in spare, broken cameras.
If a camera were to fail (not from damage), it is usually the same part that goes. There are too many examples, from battery compartments deteriorating to prism desilvering, shutter curtains sticking. Just look at all the requests for help on this forum, many cameras of the same model have the same problems coming up time after time. And anything with electronics is pretty much a disaster waiting to happen.
One well-known and well-documented example is the failure of the AF motor in Leica S lenses. Leica subsequently changed the motor and the older lenses eventually need to be upgraded. Having a (very expensive) set of spare lenses would get you nowhere since they would have the old design. Similarly, the CCD image sensor of some of the early digital Leicas had a tendency of corrode. There are no replacements, there is no simple fix.
And anything with electronics is pretty much a disaster waiting to happen.
If either Sirius or myself had such a workshop, and could make use of it, our post counts on Photrio would probably be much lower.
I appreciate the skills, knowledge, experience and interest of those who are good at this.
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