Chapter 1 Repairman
Chapter 1 Repairman
”It can’t be repaired, there’s no way to repair it!”
Looking at the heavy lens in his hand, Kang Chi sighed distressedly.
The young man opposite the counter immediately became anxious after hearing this.
He looked at Kang Chi with a slightly begging look: “Aren’t you very good at repairing lenses? How can you not repair it? Help me think of a way, the price and everything are negotiable!”
”Your lens is broken, how can I repair it?” Kang Chi shook his head firmly, “If I had a spare lens, I could try to repair it…”
”But this is Angenieux 16-300mm, a lens worth hundreds of thousands. Where can I disassemble the parts for you? I can only return it to the factory for repair!”
Hearing the words “return to the factory for repair”, the young man’s face suddenly turned pale.
He obviously also knew that the price of returning to the factory for repair was absolutely an astronomical figure.
Looking at the young man with a pale face, Kang Chi couldn’t help but feel some sympathy and sighed helplessly.
As the world’s top movie zoom lens manufacturer, Anqin has been leading the design and development of zoom lenses from the beginning and has become a heavyweight equipment supplier for the film industry.
But its high price also makes it out of reach for ordinary crews.
At the same time, except for the top photographers, ordinary people can’t control it.
And the young man standing in front of Kang Chi is obviously not one of the “top photographers”, so…
”Are you an assistant cameraman? Did you accidentally drop the lens?”
The young man nodded with difficulty.
“Did the crew buy insurance?”
”Yes.”
”Then you are afraid of nothing!”
”But if a lens worth hundreds of thousands of dollars falls like this, tomorrow, not only our crew, but the entire Hengdian camera crew will probably know about it. Who will dare to hire me in the future?”
Kang Chi suddenly realized: “That’s right…”
Although the crew bought insurance for the equipment, just like cars, the premium will increase if there are more accidents, and it is much more expensive than car insurance…
Therefore, if anyone damages the equipment on the crew, deducting wages and fines are minor matters, but getting a reputation for being clumsy is fatal.
What Hengdian lacks the most is extras, and the second is “skilled migrant workers” who are eager to climb up.
Kang Chi could only comfort him: “You are still young, it’s not too late to change your profession…”
”But I just want to be a photographer, I want to make movies!” The young man pulled his hair in pain, “Is there really no other way?”
”Really not.” Kang Chi spread his hands, “Except for Anqin, even Soni and Jia Neng can’t make this kind of lens, and Anqin doesn’t sell accessories, so apart from finding a lens of the same model to disassemble the accessories, you can only return it to the factory to be slaughtered…”
The young man quietly put away the lens, and when he left, he couldn’t help but curse in a low voice: “These foreign manufacturers always cut our leeks like this, why don’t domestic companies come out to fight them?”
Fight Anqin? Kang Chi laughed immediately…
The domestic digital camera field in this world is even worse than Kang Chi’s situation in his previous life!
In his previous life, there were domestic brands such as DJI, Yongnuo, and Laowa, especially DJI, which started with aerial photography drones, and penetrated a lot of market share in the high-end film and television field.
But in this world, even these domestic products are nowhere to be found.
Whether it is a mid-to-low-end home digital camera, a professional SLR camera, or even a mobile phone lens, there is no one in China that can show off, let alone a lens factory like Anqin that specializes in the high-end film and television field.
It can only be crushed in all aspects and the whole nation is ripped off.
As the saying goes, photography makes three generations poor, and SLR ruins a lifetime. Photography is the art of using light! But in this world, it has to be doubled! Maybe some people will think that since I don’t play photography and don’t buy video equipment, foreign capitalists can’t rip off their own heads.
This is as ignorant as the oil price rising, but people who don’t have a car or drive a tram are complacent.
The expensive shooting equipment will be reflected in countless consumer areas.
Every product that wants to be promoted must first take photos or videos, and then promote it.
And every penny added in this link will eventually fall on the heads of consumers.
For example, movie tickets are more expensive, short videos have more ads, video memberships are more expensive, and even the takeaways you order are more expensive.
Perhaps most people don’t feel this cost sharing at all, because it is indeed a bit negligible.
But if you pay a cent and I pay a cent, there will be 14 million people in the country. If this accumulates over time, how much will be harvested?Less wealth?
Kang Chi had no way to deal with this. He was just a small boss who failed in his previous life. After crossing over, he was just the boss of a digital camera repair shop with good manual skills.
Good manual skills, plus a little entrepreneurial experience, are a good combination. Kang Chi has also been tinkering with an online store called Daqin Optics during this period.
People who have played with photography may know that there is an online blogger named Cangye. Because he is good at handwork, he made some DIY lenses similar to toys and sold them online. Netizens teased him as Daqing Optics. In fact, it is flattering to say that he is Daqing Optics. Cangye Technology’s products are full of plastic, and they can’t even reach the accuracy and imaging effect of the lenses in the Qing Dynasty. It is clearly a joke.
But such products have been popular for a while, and many people bought them.
Most buyers are just looking for novelty. After all, they just bought a toy for a few dozen yuan.
More and more people are joining this consumption downgrade.
While complaining, it’s really good.
After all, a lens is cheaper than the original lens cap, so it’s not a loss anyway? Perhaps, it also means to resist the sky-high price of foreign lenses? It’s a pity that Cangye Technology didn’t think about making lenses seriously at the beginning, and it didn’t have the strength.
Whether it’s autofocus or lens coating, it’s much more difficult than ordinary optical design.
After Cangye became popular, it also tried to launch an 85mm lens for more than 300 yuan. This lens is made of metal and has a much better quality, but the sales are not good. The investment cost is not proportional to the income and expenditure.
Later, Cangye turned to farms and homestays, and Cangye Technology’s products basically stayed on those toy lenses.
And the “Daqin Optics” opened by Kang Chi, which is homophonic with Daqing Optics, also sells his own DIY toy lenses.
But unlike Cangye’s playful mentality, Kang Chi still wants to make real lens products.
Just like domestic cars beat down the price of joint venture cars, even if it can save everyone from being ripped off by one leek, it would be great!
Pah–
The sleepy Kang Chi patted his cheek and stopped dreaming.
After checking the time, he hurried back to the workbench and continued the previous repair work.
This is an F-mount manual fixed-focus lens. It is a bit old, so the focus ring is stuck.
The collection value of this kind of lens is far greater than its use value. In fact, there is no need for much repair.
With that money, you can buy another one.
But the customer insisted on repairing it, and he wanted it urgently. He wanted to come and get it in an hour.
It is a fool not to make money.
Kang Chi’s fingers flexibly disassembled the lens, cleaned, polished, and lubricated it. In less than ten minutes, the lens was successfully repaired.
“Manual lenses are quick to fix!”
He adjusted the focus ring with satisfaction, and suddenly found a virtual panel appeared next to the lens.
[Item: Nikang Ai Auto 105mm F2.5 Lens]
[Manufacturer: Nikang Imaging]
[Item Level: 1]
[Experience: 100/100 (non-manufacturer, cannot be upgraded)]
[Mastery Points: 1]
[Item Status: Old, cannot be analyzed]
? ? ?
What is going on? Kang Chi was stunned at first, and then he quickly realized something, and his mouth trembled with excitement.
“Golden Finger!!?”
Kang Chi certainly knew about this kind of time travel benefit! He quickly began to study his own system.
“Non-manufacturer, cannot be upgraded?”
Does it mean that if you are a manufacturer, you can upgrade? Kang Chi quickly found the plastic lens he had rubbed out in the morning.
[Item: Daqin Optics 50mm F1.4 Lens]
[Manufacturer: Kang Chi]
[Item Level: 1]
[Experience: 0/100]
[Mastery Points: 1]
[Item Status: Intact, No Analysis Items]
Looking at the transparent panel on the lens, Kang Chi smiled immediately.
Sure enough, the golden finger has arrived. This panel was definitely not there when he was rubbing the lens! New book uploaded, please collect and read it~ (End of this chapter)