Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 5/12/01 6:21 AM, leica@davidmorton.org at leica@davidmorton.org wrote: > If you're travelling further afield, or are interested in mail order places > with good s/h stock while you're here, I can recommend ffordes - > http://secure.ffordes.com/index.htm - and MXV http://www.mxv.co.uk (if by > any chance you're flying into or out of LGW, then MXV isn't too far away. > It's a pig of a place to get to by public transport, but it's an astonishing > place to visit, they have a *mountain* of stock). I can second this. Their stock is truly amazing, and their prices are WAY better than London. My second favorite camera store in the world, possibly my favorite! They really put the London dealers to shame. And the guys there are SO helpful. You'd think they were American. I have returned stuff to them with no quibble whatsoever. I got a beautiful M2 from them for a silly price and a really nice chrome 50 summilux which I still have. They don't regard leicas as jewels but real cameras! Imagine that! By public transport it's actually pretty easy... just under an hour by train from Fenchurch St station in the City of London. Interesting ride along the Thames estuary. About eight quid, if that. Then a short walk through the seaside town to the store. - -- John Brownlow http://www.pinkheadedbug.com