[Leica] In Shock

[rclompus at mac.com (Richard Clompus)]

Philip, is Mid-City still in business on Walnut Street?  I bought  
some Leica gear there and they had quite a bit of darkroom supplies  
also.

Richard Clompus


On Dec 13, 2006, at 10:37 PM, Philip Forrest wrote:

> That's par for the course, pretty much.  I know a few camera  
> dealers that
> once had big stores but now strictly do everything online.   
> Maintaining a
> retail store is just too expensive these days when the bottom line  
> you're
> competing against is a giant like Amazon.com.
> Here in Philly, the closest photo store with a decent selection of  
> anything
> is in Bryn Mawr.  All of the big camera shops closed down or were  
> bought out
> by Ritz and now are just purveyors of point & shoot cameras.  We do  
> have a
> Calumet, but again, it's a big chain store, it's expensive and they  
> have a
> used gear selection that is more like a museum than a showcase.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+photo.forrest=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+photo.forrest=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On  
> Behalf
> Of Rob McClure
> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 9:42 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] In Shock
>
>
> For the first time in morte than a year I went to the two primary
> professional camera shops in Columbus, Ohio -- Midwest Photo Exchange
> and Cord Camera (main store).  I realize that digital has overtaken
> film, but was shocked to find virtually no used equipment, digital or
> film.  Both stores previously had massive inventories of this stuff.
> Also, the new digital equipment in stock was pretty pedestrian -- the
> usual Canon and Nikon.   Very little Pentax, Olympus or  Panasonic.
> Both are Leica dealers, but no digital or film Leicas were in stock.
> The large MF and LF departments at MPEX are shells of its former
> selves.  I guess I am partly to blame as I now buy most of my used and
> new equipment mailorder.  Is this typical of what is happening to
> camera stores in other markets?  I suspect it is and it is disturbing.
> I'll think twice before buying mailorder in the future (in the  
> unlikely
> event I can find those items locally).
>
> Rob McClure
>
>
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