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Showerthought: I fixed a camera at a flea market and it changed my whole approach
I was at the Rose Bowl flea market last month and a guy handed me his jammed Nikon F3, asking if I could look at it right there. With just my pocket toolkit, I popped the bottom plate and found a bent film advance lever spring, which I gently reshaped with my small tweezers. Has anyone else had a field repair completely shift how you prepare your daily carry tools?
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patricia326d ago
My old kit was just a lens cloth and spare battery until I helped a tourist with a stuck zoom ring at Griffith Park. Now I always pack a set of precision screwdrivers.
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jason_stone596d ago
Tbh betty_perry24 has a point about how small things can break a camera. I started carrying a tiny pair of tweezers after a similar thing happened to me. Those little tools really save the day.
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That's a cool story. Fixing a classic camera on the spot must have felt great. What specific tools do you carry now that you didn't before? My little kit is just a multi-tool and a light. Wondering if I should add more. A bent spring is such a simple thing to stop a whole camera. Makes you rethink what can fail.
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