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About the Author, Curt Fargo’s – Bio
I got started in the Photo Industry in 1975 as a Sales Clerk at Gamel’s Camera in Elizabethtown Kentucky. I was also doing some stringer work for the local newspaper “The News Enterprise” at the same time. While a senior in High School, I read an article in Peterson Photographic Magazine about the Naval School of Photography and became intrigued, so I raised my right hand while still in high school to go into the Navy as a Photographer upon graduating in 1977.
I always was mechanical inclined so in 1978 upon reaching my first duty station at NAS Agana Guam, I was able to apprentice under Richard McSwain the photo labs camera repairman. While in Guam this was a side job after my regular duties as a traditional Navy Photographer.
My next duty station was the USS Coral Sea where I was one of 30 Navy Photographers aboard this Aircraft Carrier. I had hoped to get some more OJT in camera repair but the ships camera repairman got transferred off do to his wife’s bad health. So in 1979 I started using my GI Bill and signed up for National Cameras correspondence course. While in port in Subic Bay Philippines I was able to get some more 1 on 1 training on the cameras that the pilots took up with them every time they flew. The carrier had 300 cameras onboard that needed to be maintained and I got nominated for the job of which again was a job I had to do in addition to my normal photography duties.
In 1981 I had completed the National Camera Course and was transferred to NAS Alameda California. Getting to work 10 hour days 4 days a week I had lots of free time. So on my 3 days off, I had my own small camera repair business that eventually grew into 10 employees after leaving the Navy in 1983.
While attending PMA in the mid 80’s I decided to test for Certified Photographic Consultant and passed. The Certification has since been renamed to Certified Photographic Councilor.
In 1987 I graduated from Solano Community College with an AS in Electronics and in 1997 with an AS in Computer Servicing.
In the late 80’s I got into the politics of Camera Repair and eventually was elected as President of the Society of Photo-Technologists (which was the world wide association of camera repairmen at that time). This is where I learned I don’t like politics. Shortly after this, as Micro-Tools I started providing services to the Camera Repair industry like training seminars, training manuals along with tools and supplies. We eventually ended up buying out our competitor Cam-Comp.
It was in one of these training seminars in 1999 when Fred Beck of Fuji tells me that I need to start selling Photographic Solutions Eclipse and Sensor Swabs as the repair shops needed these items to clean sensors. I immediately started stalking, selling and supporting the sensor cleaning industry, which was only the camera repair shops initially. About this same time our business is growing so much that we decide to open an office in Ochtup Germany to handle our European customers. I partner up with Klaus Walterbusch and open Micro-Tools Europe.
Since that time there have been many more cameras introduced and it has become imperative that the majority of D-SLR camera owners learn to clean their cameras. So we started selling to the general public and support their needs.