Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/08/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Cambridge Camera was a hissing snake in the grass. The personification of pure evil. 47th was worse. -- Mark R. > From: "W. R. Smith" <wrs111445 at yahoo.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 06:52:10 -0700 (PDT) > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Camera store graveyard > > I bought a Russkie Practika TTL SLR from Cambridge Camera mail order from > Houston in 1970 and returned it by registered mail to them almost > immediately, > as it was defective (as I recall it was the meter). They refused to answer > my > numerous letters over 1 year, so I mailed a complaint letter to the new NYC > Consumer Affairs Commissioner, Bess Meyerson Grant (a former Miss > America), w/ > a copy to them. I got a new camera ASAP. Not sorry to see that name gone. > > --- On Mon, 8/15/11, Steven Beckham <ecoprof10 at gmail.com> wrote: > > From: Steven Beckham <ecoprof10 at gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Camera store graveyard > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Monday, August 15, 2011, 8:39 AM > > This too is my first post on the LUG. Like many, I spent a lot of time > looking at those ads in Modern Photography etc. and dreaming.? Living in > "fly over country" I could not imagine the amount of choice offered by > those > stores.? Last year was my first time in NYC--you can bet I went by B & H. > It was heaven--pure photographic heaven.???Sorry to see all those names > gone > though. > > Steve Beckham > > On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 12:16 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at > rabinergroup.com>wrote: > >> Its like the FBI most wanted list of famous camera store rip offs finally >> in >> the end blocked from selling gray market in Pop photography and also I >> think >> shutterbug which is way they went thank god under and we don't hear about >> them any more. In the 70's and 80s it was the back of pop and modern >> photography.? You had to be very careful who you did business with becuae >> the magazines then didn't care. >> I'd put a (good riddance!) on a few more of them then just one. >> -- >> Mark R. >> >> >> >>> From: David Freedman <dpfreedman at gmail.com> >>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 21:36:28 -0400 >>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Camera store graveyard >>> >>> I *never* post to the LUG but this really hit home (being a life-long New >>> Yorker). To add to the list (all were in Manhattan): >>> >>> Executive Photo >>> Olden Camera >>> 47th Street Photo >>> Cambridge Camera (good riddance!) >>> Garden Camera >>> Wall Street Camera >>> Sharp Photo >>> Rechovos Camera >>> Competitive Camera >>> Bi-Rite Camera >>> Profoto (not sure of the name/spelling; was on the block with Spiratone >> and, >>> I believe, Willoughby) >>> >>> I'm sure I'll think of a few others. >>> >>> On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at gmail.com >>> wrote: >>> >>>> What happens when you cling to old technology too long. New York is the >>>> graveyard of old photo stores. Remember Willoughby, Camera Barn, >> Spiratone, >>>> etc. >>>> >>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/NYC+old+photo+store.jpg.html >>>> >>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/NYC+old+photo+store.jpg.html >>>> >>>> Larry Z >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information