KEH.com, if you haven’t heard of them, deals almost exclusively in used equipment but has some new gear as well. We looked at several sources for used equipment including KEH.com, Ebay and Craigslist. There are plenty of used 35mm SLR and medium format models on the market at prices that make up for the fact that you’ll have to pay for stuff like film and processing. Rather than letting the lack of new gear get you down, now is a great time to crack open some film canisters. Prices of current models are steadily rising while gear that used to be easy to common on store shelves is becoming sparse. They are now getting old as cameras go and need servicing to keep on track like anything.Because of the tragedy in Japan, the market for DSLR film cameras is tough right now. If you are shooting with a Contax professionally I would move onto another brand soon or buy two or three bodies as backup if you're going long term perhaps for parts/backup. No service departments will ever hold shutters like this in inventory - it's not within their requirement. I will be buying at least one spare shutter next year to keep on the shelf. Kyocera will stock parts until 2014/5 as they agreed and then it's over. Tritec would be my only recommendation for C645 cameras to anyone now. Turn around was only 10 working days too!. I now have a brand new shutter which should last a long time for me, spot meter should also last well and the auto focus is very snappy and good in very low light now. All up a good price I thought - superior german workmanship i hope. Heard back after two days an paid them - shutter was €130 and labour for that and spot meter repair was double. Contact can be a bit tricky - maybe it's a language thing (my German isn't that great so wrote in english) or maybe they are super busy but after two /three emails heard from them, sent my camera body in with details of problem. I had my C645 body repaired by Tritec recently and recommend them.
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