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Remember when you could actually fix a shutter with just a screwdriver and a steady hand?
I was at a camera show in Chicago maybe ten years back, and a guy brought me a classic Nikon F with a sticky curtain. I popped the top plate off right there on a folding table. Fixed it in twenty minutes with some lighter fluid and a tiny adjustment. Now, half the stuff that comes into my shop is mirrorless with a sealed unit. If the shutter goes, you're swapping the whole assembly for a part that costs more than the camera is worth sometimes. It feels like we're moving from repair techs to part swappers. What's the most repairable modern camera you've worked on lately?
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mason_flores212mo ago
Ugh, we're just glorified parts changers now.
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bethj4414h ago
22 years ago when I started at the shop, we didn't have diagnostic computers at all. You had to listen to the engine, check the spark plugs, and actually know how fuel systems worked. These days I can plug in a scanner, get a code, swap a sensor in 10 minutes, and the customer is back on the road. That's a win for everyone including me, cause I can do three of those jobs in the time it used to take me to fix one carburetor.
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