About Me & This Website

I'm an old guy, semi-retired, a Vietnam era Veteran and I've traveled over much of the U.S. and parts of Europe. My first "real" camera was a Minolta SRT 101 that I bought in 1971 while in Germany with the U.S. Army. That SLR resides with my ex-wife.  Divorce in the U.S. usually translates into an equal division of assets with the ex-wife receiving half as well as keeping your half if she so chooses.  But, that's a long and bitter story not worth repeating here. Anyway, I love photography and I enjoy repair and fixing things as well. So, my love of cameras and my inclination towards repair led me to repairing cameras and to start this website in March 2000. If this website helps one camera hobbyist successfully repair, service or restore his camera, then it's worth it.  This website is non-profit.  Any money received goes to cover the cost to maintain and run this website with whatever remaining going to charity.  I have web pages that are devoted to links, resources, free repair tips, Free instruction/user/owner's manuals and so on.  The instruction manual web page has a large selection of free manuals and receives a lot of visitors worldwide (according to the statistics provided by my host server and from search engines).  So far, the sale of repair manuals have covered the steady increase of costs and as long as my costs are covered, I will continue to keep the prices of the repair manuals low.  With your help, I hope this website can become more and more a focal point for camera hobbyists to find resources, information, links, etc.  I do appreciate any suggestions, links and feedback. If you have anything camera or life related that you wish to talk about, contact me --> jim@lensinc.net   Thank you! Jim