Second-hand cameras and repair
Two floors of used bodies and glass, a bench that still services mechanical shutters, and a grading scale the shop will argue with you about rather than quietly inflate.
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Today
A preview: the LINE thread is drawn in this site's own CSS. No official account is linked and nothing here reaches LINE.
Tap a reply and the assistant answers inside the frame — that is the live product, not a recording. What is real on this page
LINE
The channel is built around a person adding a business as a friend, which makes it the most permission-shaped surface in messaging — and the least forgiving of a shop that treats the follower list as a mailing list.
Somebody scans a code or taps a link to add the account, and they can block it in two taps from the same screen they use for their friends. Nothing about this channel lets a business arrive uninvited, which is why what gets sent has to be worth the tap.
Pushing a message to every follower is counted and charged; answering somebody who wrote first is not. The economics point exactly where the manners already did — send rarely, answer quickly.
The channel carries a persistent menu and structured cards under the keyboard, so 'which notices am I on' becomes a tap rather than a sentence — and an assistant here should be reaching for those instead of writing lists.
See it answer
Each one opens the assistant with the question already sent — you only wait for the reply.
What notices can I follow, and how often does each one actually send?
Answered from the published notice list and membership levels through list_services and list_plans.
Stop the trade-in offers but keep the arrivals notice.
Opens the subscription form as a card in the chat, already set to the notice you named.
What's the state of TK-4409?
Asks which email it sits on, then reads it back. Signed in, it goes straight to your own notices.
What you can follow
Each one is a separate choice with its own rhythm and its own audience. The assistant changes exactly the one you name and leaves the rest alone.
What came in off the bench this week with its honest grade — haze, separation, a sticky slow speed said out loud rather than discovered at home.
Saturday mornings, weekly
A single message the day something on your own list turns up. Nothing else is ever sent on this one.
Only when it happens, sometimes never
Your repair is finished, what was done to it, what it came to, and until when it is held at the counter.
The day the job closes
What the shop is short of and paying well for this month, with the grading the offer assumes.
First of the month
The monthly evening upstairs: who is printing, what is being demonstrated, and the six places that are not already gone.
Ten days ahead, monthly
The desk
Subscriptions and their state, with the reference the counter files them under. Look one up with its reference and the email it sits on, or sign in and see your own.
Following the weekly arrivals notice
Running since November 2025, never paused. Opened 38 of the last 44 sends.
Watching for a 35mm f/2 in Leica thread mount, clean glass only
One came in during June and was declined on haze, correctly. Nothing since — this notice is quiet by design.
Stopped at the follower's request
Stopped on 30 August and took effect at the 1 September send, as promised. Nothing has gone out since.
Signed in as the demo customer, the assistant reads these back through my_subscription. Signed out, it asks for a email address and the email it belongs to.
Three levels of standing at the shop — following costs nothing, the card buys you the bench, and the trade priority is for people who sell as well as buy.
Free
Anyone who wants to hear what arrived without walking past the window every week.
¥3,500 a year
People who actually use the bench and want to be told before a body goes on the shelf.
¥9,000 a year
Collectors and dealers who sell into the shop as often as they buy from it.
Pick the lists you want. Unsubscribing takes effect on the next send, not in a fortnight. The assistant can open this same form for you — that is what open_desk_form does.
Tsukumo Camera is a business invented for this page. Read this before you believe anything else on it.
The LINE connection is on the roadmap, not in production — this page shows the assistant half of it working against a seeded follower list so you can judge the experience before an account exists.
Put this on your own site
The same assistant, the same page actions, the same identified sign-in — on your LINE setup instead of this one.
The assistant answers from these same words — ask it any of them and compare.
Less than you expect. The arrivals notice is weekly, darkroom nights are monthly, and the want list may go two years without sending anything at all. Nothing is bundled — following one notice never quietly signs you up to another.
Labour is quoted per job after the camera has been opened, never from a photograph, and a counter card takes ten per cent off it. If the bench cannot fix something it will say so at the inspection rather than after three weeks, and inspections that end that way are not charged for.
Deliberately pessimistic. Haze, separation, sticky slow speeds and tired seals are listed even when a photograph would hide them, and the shop would rather talk somebody out of a body than take a return six weeks later. If the description and the camera disagree, it comes back.
Yes, in one message, and it takes effect on the next send rather than at the end of some cycle. Stopping everything does not close a counter card or cancel a repair — those are separate things, and the counter will say which is which before doing anything.
