> From: Christy <christynyc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: NYC recs > To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Thursday, January 7, 2010, 9:44 PM > Hi all - > > I'm looking for recommendations for two places in NYC or > Brooklyn: > > 1. An affordable framing shop that does good work but won't > rip me off. > Doesn't have to be exhibition quality, but I'm tired of > hanging pictures up > in my place in crappy Ikea frames with mattes that don't > quite fit the > image. Can't help you there. I cut my own mattes and frame everything myself. > > 2. A repair shop. I have somehow managed to get dust inside > my lens - its > otherwise functioning, but that stuff has to come out. > Years ago I used to > go a place on 8th or 9th Street (I think) right off > Broadway, but I can't > remember the name or the exact location. Try <http://www.phototech.com>. I used them a few times to repair Nikon film cameras. As for dust inside the lens, if it doesn't affect image quality, I wouldn't bother paying anyone to clean it. If it DOES affect the image, cleaning it would, in my opinion, depend on whether the lens was high quality or an inexpensive consumer zoom. If the latter, I would forget it and replace it. Richard
