I liked cameras and was fascinated by the mechanics and this business was opening up. Mostly because of technicians and independent service centers in the 60’s, not letting up on the manufacturers to support them.

By the late 70’s, their own service centers could not provide timely service to their customers. They they finally provided repair parts and service information to qualified  shops or technicians.

That interested me, so I attended the resident program and graduated from the National Camera school in Englewood Colorado after about 1400 hours over a 12 month period. Afterwards, working 3 years at the largest photo repair center in Colorado, Denver’s Rocky Mountain Camera Repair as a general tech though I worked primarily on medium format cameras/lenses and 35mm cameras/lenses. I would work on anything photographic if needed.

More on this later….