Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I only recently moved to Philly (January of '06) and Mid City camera had supposedly closed over a year before then, but I'm not sure when. -----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 Richard Clompus Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 11:29 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] In Shock 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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