About National Camera 

Samuel L. Love, the founder of National Camera.	Colorado-based National Camera stood for over 30 years as one of the pillars of the camera-repair industry. National Camera began in 1954 as a home-study camera-repair program. As the company grew, it added: resident training test-equipment design and manufacturing a mail-order tool and supply department a repair department (Servishop Headquarters for the franchise National Camera Servishops) a parts department regional training seminars (the Area Workshops) at key cites around the U.S.
	When National Camera started, there were very few written materials available in camera repair. The company wrote, illustrated, and printed its own text and training materials as well as a bimonthly magazine, The Camera Craftsman. National Camera started—and initially housed and maintained—the Society of Photo-Technologists, an independent organization for camera-repair technicians. In the early days of SPT, the National Camera staff even wrote the publications. SPT is still active, providing an interchange of information among camera-repair technicians. To make factory manuals and parts lists affordable to students and independent technicians, National Camera implemented the NatCam microfiche program.
	The owners/operators of Infotech, Bud Fowler and Larry Lyells, worked for National Camera for several years. When National Camera sold the home-study course in 1988, Bud obtained exclusive rights to the publications that were not part of the training program. He started Infotech to make these publications available. The home-study portion of National Camera was moved to Oregon and renamed National Camera Institute. The owner now markets National Camera text materials as individual camera-repair books.