Bargain Grade Motor Drives from KEH, Y/N?

[BrianShaw]

Good for you... that's a great bargain then!

[BrianShaw]

You'll end up being wrong.








Just sayin'

You have chrsytal balls?



just askin'

[GRHazelton]

I've bought from KEH for perhaps 20 years and have always found their items to be working, unless stated otherwise, and very conservatively rated. Case in point: I just bought a Pentax LX in their BGN condition. A few barely noticeable scratches on the prism and on the base plate, and a little brassing on the self-timer base, a little dust in the viewfinder, which I blew out. I'd wager most dealers would rate it as E or better. Works perfectly. Talking to Josh at KEH (they're a local call for me) he told me that ALL their items are checked over to make sure they're working.

A sad contrast to a vendor in the northeast who sold me a camera/winder rated E which had a slightly dented prism, heavy scratches on the base plate, missing the coupling plug for the winder AND the rewind switch wouldn't work! As you can imagine it went back, I expect their check for a full refund soon. I'm not likely to deal with them again.

[agphotography]

I agree, I've never had a bad experience with KEH. I've been a customer for close to 10 years now. I hope to continue to be so for many more years.

[eurekaiv]

I bought a BGN OM Winder 1 from KEH and it was jacked up. I paid $2 for it so I threw it away. I once had to return a BGN OM2 because the shutter wasn't fully exposing the frame at 1/1000. All my BGN lenses from KEH have been better then I could hope for.

[GRHazelton]

I bought a BGN OM Winder 1 from KEH and it was jacked up. I paid $2 for it so I threw it away. I once had to return a BGN OM2 because the shutter wasn't fully exposing the frame at 1/1000. All my BGN lenses from KEH have been better then I could hope for.

I bought the T52 flash for my OM-10 from them, the unit would charge but wouldn't flash. I imagine they'd noted that it would charge and didn't check further. I called them up and the sent me a replacement, which works properly, free, and told me to keep the defective unit.