[Leica] Re:Anyone used this place for CLA? and Intro of Newbie

[jwmailbin at yahoo.com (Jim Wong)]

John -- welcome and thanks for information.

You say you found his work satisfactory.   Was there anything you felt could
have been done better?  

Regards
Jim


--- John Scocca <john@scocca.org> wrote:
> I have used him (Austin vanCampen) for CLA work three times.  His work 
> has been satisfactory and his turn-around is great - about ten days at 
> the longest.
> 
> He did two Rolleis and then my elderly IIIb (which I suspect had never 
> been serviced during its entire lifetime).  He also removed the haze 
> from a pair of lenses for the Leica.  I have no idea as to how he would 
> do with a complex repair.  I believe that he does not do electronics, 
> not an issue with the M3.
> 
> I should introduce myself, since this is my first post to this group.  
> I am by budget and nature a bottom-feeding lover of fine cameras, and I 
> like to use them, but I do not consider my work in the same league as 
> what I see on this list.  I have been lurking for several months and 
> keep learning a great deal from the posts - even about photography 
> occasionally  :-).
> 
> I'm a molecular biologist by trade, and a member of the demographic 
> that coveted Leicas when they were the only cameras on the A-list.  Now 
> I have two, my old IIIb and an M3, and am doing my damnedest to unstuck 
> the shutter buttons (a la Cassidy)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> John Scocca
> 



                
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