contax

Hello All and happy New Year! Yeah I know it's way too late to be doing that. Well no call from the former employer. I am not surprised. I use to work for this guys cousin, and he told me that Hussein is an asshole, and low and behold I think so too.

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.