Newspaper article: To survive in a digital age, camera retailers reposition
The North Nevada Business Weekly profiled the competitive camera market in a recent article. Writer Rob Sabo featured the Gordon’s Photo Service stores in Reno and Carson City, as well as local repair firms. Gordon Allen opened his first camera store in northern Nevada in 1975. Since then, Allen says, nine independent camera retailers in [...]
SquareTrade reports wide variation in failure rates across digital camera brands
SquareTrade, San Francisco, Calif., an independent warranty provider, completed a study on failure rates for digital cameras. Based on data compiled from more than 60,000 digital cameras purchased since 2006, the study found 11 percent of digital cameras fail in the first two years of ownership. Of these failures, 6.6 percent come from malfunctions while [...]
Nikon’s Arnold Kamen earns NAPET’s LaCroix award
Nikon Inc., Melville, N.Y., is proud to announce the National Association of Photo Equipment Technicians (NAPET) — a PMA member association — recently awarded its highest level of achievement, the George LaCroix Memorial Award, to Arnold H. Kamen, vice president of operations and customer services, Nikon Inc. Kamen was presented with the award for outstanding [...]
Photo Tech expands repair service
Photo Tech, New York, N.Y., which claims to be the largest camera repair center in New York, has announced a partnership with CPR (Cell Phone Repair), the nation’s largest cell phone repair franchise with more than 50 locations across the United States. Photo Tech now has the capacity to service such devices as iPhones, Blackberrys, [...]
Teleplan Camera Repair aims to become leading camera recycler
Teleplan Camera Repair, Frisco, Texas, recently added a free camera recycling service. Individuals interested in recycling their camera can simply visit the Recycle page and complete a short submission form with basic information including camera make and model. Once submitted, Teleplan Camera Repair will send a free shipping label in order for the recycler to [...]
Canon to quadruple digital camera repair shops in China by 2012
Canon Inc. said that it will quadruple the number of digital camera repair shops in China by 2012, according to JPEA Photo Electro News. At present, Canon has 12 camera repair shops, mainly in major cities like Beijing and Shanghai. Canon plans to increase the number to 20 in 2010 and eventually to 50 by [...]
A “company united” in PMA magazine
United Camera & Binocular Repair, Bensenville, Ill., is a success story by any measure; and a new chapter is being added. The firm was started 40 years ago by Frank Sciacca, who ran the company with his wife, Antoinette. In 1990, when sales were $300,000 a year, their daughter, Renee Miastkowski, joined the company. Although [...]
CRIS named authorized Pentax factory service provider
Camera Repair Instrument Service (CRIS), Chandler, Ariz., was named by Pentax Imaging Co., Golden, Colo., to provide factory repair service for Pentax brand cameras and sport optics consumer products. In this agreement, CRIS will act as the “factory service facility” for dealers, and consumers in the United States. Camera Repair Instrument Service (CRIS) is one [...]
