Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/08/15

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Camera store graveyard
From: robertbaron1 at gmail.com (Robert Baron)
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 09:56:03 -0500
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I suspect many of us have Cambridge Camera stories.  This thread brought
back unhappy memories of around 1975 or so, waiting for the purchased, paid
for and promised super 8 camera to arrive so I could film my first
daughter's first steps.

What a scurrilous bunch of unmentionables they were......or maybe still are:

http://www.cambridgeworld.com/leica_b26.html

--Bob

==On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 8:52 AM, W. R. Smith <wrs111445 at yahoo.com> 
wrote:

> 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.
>
>
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