[Leica] Philly Photo Show Snooze--but a Film Buy

[denik at comcast.net (Dennis Kushner)]

Jim,
WIthout your post,  would have forgotten about the show.
Decided a nice fall country drive from Reading wouldn't be wasted.
Took the long ay home via country roads for some scenic shots.

Photo shows are dying out mainly because dealers
have trouble meeting expenses as most of show goers
don't buy yet they'll overbid on feebay. I found a few
Leica items I was looking for at a reasonable price.
There were also a few dealers who used to set up & now
just show up to buy & trade. Some just set up one $60
dollar table & hope those fishing reels sell. LOL! Promotor
has no idea who will spring for a table.

The Trevose show the last one left in the Phila area. I also
remember the Expo Center In Ft Washington that attracted
dealers from the Midwest and a thousand plus showed up.
Even the Manhattan show down to 2 a year & even more
disappointing to see even fewer dealers set up. Even more
disappointing is not seeing young photographers attending shows.

Times have changed.  A few years from now all of us will be
at home entering Sunday Breakfast photos.

Dennis

On Nov 5, 2006, at 12:25 PM, Jim Shulman wrote:

> Went to the photo show this AM in Trevose, PA.
>
> Several years ago, say about 2000, it was filled to the rafters with 
> cameras
> and equipment for sale.  The show took up an entire ballroom, plus the 
> main
> hotel corridors, and three separate ante-rooms.
>
> Today, that same show was a grand total of about twenty five dealers.
> Several tables were empty.  There was almost nothing I saw of any 
> interest
> (save for a neat 1930s GE Iron, mint in box, and a fellow selling 
> metal rear
> M-lens caps for twelve bucks.  One table featured fishing reels (I'm 
> not
> kidding). A few oldster photographers going table to table, flogging 
> their
> M3/Summicron 50 setups, with scant interest (or little interest in 
> paying
> what they thought the cameras were worth.)
>
> So, for those LUGgers who stayed home this AM photographing their
> breakfasts, a wise choice.
>
> However, hope y'all show up here on Nov 18th for the Leica Day lunch.  
> I'll
> post another reminder closer to the date.
>
> Jim Shulman
> Bryn Mawr, PA
>
>
> PS.  For those five of us still shooting film, there is a bargain to 
> be had:
> www.jandcphoto.com is running a moving sale, with 25% off for orders 
> over a
> hundred bucks.  If you were thinking of getting Efke/Adox high silver 
> b/w
> film, they have it in 25, 50 and 100 speeds in 35mm.  No, I'm not on 
> their
> payroll, but I did just lay in a supply, which is supposedly en-route.
>
>
>
>
>
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