Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/10/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]When I was in Tokyo a few weeks ago I had to check out the camera stores, of course, and I had heard Yodobashi was the largest and had everything. Yodobashi turned out be not just a camera store but a giant everything-electrical store, rather like an over sized Best Buy here in the States. Washing machines, stoves, A/Cs, stereo gear, radios, fans, ... yada, yada, yada, as Jerry Seinfeld might say. I went to two of them, one in Shinjuku; the other in Akihabara. They both occupy full city blocks and are eight stories high. Every available surface was covered with ads and posters, even the stair and escalator steps, and street hawkers just outside the main entrance, young gals, shouted out the bargains to be found inside. The Akihabara store had the most cameras and seemed to have complete stocks, even the 8mm Lumix fisheye that's just starting to show up here. No surprises in the Nikon or Leica sections, though, just one of everything you might want. All the visual cacophony left me dizzy. Make sure you're sitting down before looking. :-) The pictures start here: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/2010_tokyo/P1010889.jpg.html or http://tinyurl.com/3xyn7fo GF-1 20mm f1.7 Pancake. C&C always welcome. Regards, Dick