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Shaggysk8 said:

If we don't repair them soon there will be none left, lets think about the film shooters of the future.

I will always repair them, I think its good to put money a side for this.

Paul

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Jeff Kubach said:

It depends on the camera, some of my stuff has a sentimental value to it. I will go a little farther on the expense.

Jeff

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It depends on the camera. If it is a common camera that I can easily replace and the repair is high then I will get a replacement.

If it is an expensive camera then I am much more likely to get it repaired.

Steve

MattKing said:

I think it is misleading to use the price of a used replacement camera as a measure of a camera's value, unless that used replacement comes from a trusted source, with a meaningful warranty.

Many prices for used cameras are illogical - they are more likely to represent vagaries in the market than objective factors.

When considering repair costs, I find it useful to think of the cost of rolls of film. If a repair is going to cost me less than X rolls of film, and I'm likely to shoot X rolls of film with the repaired camera in the near future, it seems more clear that the repair cost is worthwhile.

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To my mind it depends if one sees your equipment as a commodity to buy and sell or as a resource to use, I have my gear serviced because I'm happy with it, enjoy it and want to carry on using it, and don't want to sell it.

I figure it's a case by case situation. I probably would not spend more then the value of the camera on a repair. From my experience with having camera's repaired is they do not necessarily keep working for a long time. I had a real nice FE2 that I bought for $150.00 but it was gummed up so I sent it in for a CLA. They told me the meter was also defective and I paid $150.00 to have it all fixed up. Then 18months later it quit working and I called the same outfit and they said send it in with another $150.00. I then thought now I will have $450.00 in the thing and decided to sell it off for parts instead at Camera West. Luckily they felt it was worth $180.00 so I was happy to part company with the camera. I now have a N80 that I got for free. It is a 100% camera on the inside and outside. However I am not going to repair it when the time comes. I am going to go digital full time at that point as the last good lab is 40 miles away and it's to hard to get out there.