It took me a long time to find someone that cares about my cameras as much as I do.\r
I will be sending all my gear to Tony at TC Camera.\r
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Tony is a long time, factory trained technician working for himself, which I like. I fell much better sending my cameras to SOMEONE rather than SOMEPLACE. Big difference to me.\r
I've had some of my cameras 30 years. I don't want to give them to just anyone to work on.\r
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My Minolta SRT-202 was completely serviced, meter and shutter adjusted, modified to use a newer battery and the viewfinder was cleaned to get rid of 25 years of dust and debris. There eas one spec of dirt Tony couldn't get out of the viewfinder, and he told me about it before he sent it back.\r
I keep his business card on the bottom of my computer at work and recommend him to everyone.\r
I am super happy, and am sending another camera to him now.\r
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EDIT: 08/28/2013\r
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I recently sent Tony my Yashica Mat 124 G for a CLA. WOW! The viewfinder is SOOOO much brighter and easier to focus. He cleaned the inside of the taking lens and the increase in picture sharpness is huge. the shutter is beautiful and the self timer works flawlessly! I just used this camera almost exclusivly on vacation. I ran 10 rolls of Kodak Ektar and Portra 400 through it.\r
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ALSO: I had sent in a pretty rough black Minolta SRT 202. It was pretty bad, with some visible corrosion in the little ASA window on the shutter speed knob so my hopes for success were low, but the camera had a history (belonged to a war correspondant) so I wanted to give it a shot. ANOTHER WOW! It took a while and some work on his part buy this camera looks and works great now.\r
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Getting ready to ship out my Pentax K1000 for a CLA and meter repair. Next after that is a Takumar 135mm with a sticky iris.\r
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I can't say enough or recommend TC Camera highly enough.\r
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Thanks again Tony!
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