At 10:00 AM 07-02-99 -0700, Garth Wood <garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>At 07:07 AM 07/02/99 -0800, John Hudson wrote:
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>>I write from Vancouver ..... BC that is. If there is a camera shop across
>>the street from Pacific Centre it's new to me and I am down there quite
>>frequently but then I am not looking for cameras all the time.
>
>It's a little hole-in-the-wall with really high-quality new (and some
used) equipment, and when I said the boxes were piled high, I meant it.
I'd have to dig out my downtown Van map to try and "reconstruct" exactly
where it is -- the first time I ran into it was purely by accident (I was
lost in Pacific Centre and "surfaced" to try and get my bearings -- lo and
behold, there it was! Funny little place with a name like "Pacific Pro" or
somesuch...). The Pacific Centre exit I used had a camera shop in the
Centre near the exit, if that helps (don't remember its name, either, but
they had a new-in-the-box Zuiko 35mm shift lens when I was last there in
October '98, for just over a grand CDN...)
Ok! Sounds like Inter-Pro Photo listed in the white pages at 757 West
Hastings Street. I thought you had meant Leo's Camera Supply at 1055
Granville which is +20 mins walk from 757 WH.
I saw one of those 35mm shift lenses three weeks ago ...... s/hand but
looked in very clean shape and with no dings or scratches. Never having
seen such a lens before I figured with my "VW mentality" that if anything
was complicated, involved un-necessary moving parts, and was fancy that
Murphy could be right around the corner. I asked the seller why I would
want to have a lens that moved in two planes when movement that involved
ultra precision engineering could be asking for quick trouble. The reply I
got was that I was sounding like a worry wart! He wanted about Cdn$400; I
didn't buy. I figured that my 28mm / f2.8 Zuiko and 35mm / f1.4 Summilux
were just fine!!
jh
>>If you rate camera stores like Chapters, Costco and Walmart in terms of
>>size and volume I guess you have to go to NYC, LA or Chicago. However,
>>Vancouver does have some very respectable photo outlets with knowledgeable
>>staff and quality service.
>
>Didn't say Van didn't. They just don't really compare to places like
Henry's or B&H, is all. The problem with offering pro-level equipment for
all these places is that the margins on the equipment is low, so you have
to do a *lot* of volume. B&H does a *lot* of volume. With a population
base in the high seven figures and a large and well-established
professional base in the area, B&H can afford to, and that's not counting
their mail-order empire.
Point taken.
jh
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