I was going to reply to your earlier thread with the contact details of my
favoured repairer, Rob. Fortunately I read your followup (below) - I was
going to suggest Luton (in Luton, I don't know their Bristol branch) who
have done maybe a dozen bits of work for me, with friendly service and no
problems. But that is face to face rather than mail order, which may well
make a difference.
In my experience they *do* know OM inside out, and my understanding is that
Olympus UK routinely pass their pro-photographer support work on to Luton
(Olympus UK, of course, has no expertise or spare parts, they sold all the
latter to Luton).
I do know that others have had success with Colchester.
If the OM10 repair didn't work out, you should have their guarantee to fall
back on?
--
Piers
-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Rob Smith
Sent: 13 January 2005 16:06
To: 'olympus@xxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [OM] Re: OM-1n Maintenance Questions
Funny you should say that.
Luton Camera repairs was where I had it done.
Rob
-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Worby [mailto:simon@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 13 January 2005 15:56
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: OM-1n Maintenance Questions
Rob Smith wrote:
> I do not know of a good camera service in the UK to send my camera to.
> I had my OM10 serviced at a suposed Olympus Specialist.
> I was not very pleased with the work and this is the OM10 which just
broke.
May I enquire as to who this "supposed Olympus Specialist" was, and why you
were dissatisfied?
I was unhappy with Luton Camera Repairs. According to our local camera shop,
I am not the only one, and they don't like sending cameras to them, either.
There are a couple of different repairers in Wallingford; there is a lack of
sufficient information as whether they are any good.
The other one I know of is Colchester Camera Repairs, which specialise in
Olympus and Canon. They have had at least one good report here. I currently
have a camera with them. I will report back when I get it back.
I think it's important we try to build up a list of good/bad repairers in
the UK. I'm sure we will have a mixed bag of opinions, but at least
something is better than nothing. Likely as not we will all need one some
day; as individuals we are nothing, but as a group we may hold some sway.
Regards,
Simon
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