We have been in the camera repair industry for 20 years and counting... We service all major camera brands, lens and video. We are an authorized service repair center for all FUJI digital cameras with factory trained technicians and are a major RICOH parts distributor

    We're a camera repair service. We specialize in the repair and refurbishing of photographic equipment and sell new and used cameras and photographic equipment to the public. We also sell camera parts to South and Central America We're also a Ricoh parts distributor

A dream accomplished

Forty-five years ago in a small town of Oriente, Cuba a 14-year-old boy, while sitting on a doorstep under the hot beaming sun, read an article in the Reader’s Digest about the Chrysler building. This article described the structure of the building residing on Lexington Avenue. Constructed of beautiful marble, granite, steel and polished wood, in 1928, it was the highest building of its kind. 78 floors were dedicated to the Chrysler Corporation. According the story, the owner of the building took his son to the very top floor and told him that one day that building will belong to him but in order to gain that privilege, he had to know each corner of the building inside and out, and to accomplish that, the son had to sweep the building from the very top floor to the very bottom. Only then will the building be granted to him. Reading that article fascinated me so much that I promised myself that someday I would visit New York city just to see this magnificent landmark.

Time passed and due to political problems occurring in my country I requested permission to leave. After waiting 19 years, my wife, 2 children and I were finally given permission to leave Cuba and go to Costa Rica. We spent 3 wonderful years there but my mission was to come to the United States. So, on May 18, 1983 we left our home in Costa Rica and on May 23 we finally arrived to New York City. Two days later I was already looking for a job as a camera technician. I landed a job in Japan Camera Repair where I lasted about a month due to the language barrier. Since it was predominantly Korean, we couldn’t communicate. So one morning, I took the yellow pages and began calling camera places; finally one of the places that I called, a man answered speaking Spanish. I briefly explained my situation over the phone and he asked me to come in to his shop right away for a trial. He gave me directions for the subway and I entered through the Grand Central tunnel. I had no idea where I was. The shop was named 43 Street Film Corp. At one o’clock he told me to go to lunch and walk around in order to familiarize myself with the surroundings and to my surprise as I approached the exit of the building I noticed I was face to face with those marble walls and steel structures I had once read about 14 years ago. I was in complete astonishment when I realized it was the very building that I dreamt of visiting first when I came to New York City. It was the Chrysler Building.

Working in Chrysler Camera was a totally new experience for me. I needed to catch up with technology. Here I learned how to work with actual equipment. I learned how to repair and adjust a camera with quickness and ease. I repaired cameras like the Canon AE-1, Minolta X-700, Nikon F-2, Fuji 701, Ricoh XR, Yashica FR, Olympus OM, Kodak, Pentax and many more. We also entered the era of disc cameras, compact auto focus and got to experience the first SLR auto focus, which was the Maxxum 7000. In addition new models kept popping up on the shelves. Overall, new versions of photographic equipment would arise like the new APS and Digital cameras which are just starting to prevail and people are just experimenting with. However, overall 35mm would still be going strong. It’s like the creator of Leica cameras once said over 85 years when the first 35mm camera was invented; “we have made a camera that will endure for the next one hundred years.” He was right in choosing his words because we still have 35mm film to last through the next 30 years.