Serious question, hit repair number 500 on my bench and the 500th was a Pentax K1000 with a stuck mirror

Skyler Clark · 2026-10-05T03:30:03.367296+00:00

I keep a little tally in a notebook of every camera that comes across my bench at the shop in Boise, and I crossed 500 repairs sometime in March. The weird part is number 500 turned out to be a beat up Pentax K1000 with a stuck mirror and a bent wind lever, which is the exact same model that started this whole thing for me back in 2011. I thought hitting a big round number would feel like something, but mostly I just sat there wondering how many of those 500 were the same three problems over and over. Curious if anyone else keeps a count, and what repair taught you the most about your own habits.

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