B&H's Camera Museum is embarrassing

slackercrurster · Dec 17, 2018

I did a shoot at BH yesterday. I was near Penn Station and it was raining like hell. I thought I'd duck in BH to get out of the rain and also give them a little infrared radiation. I shot for about 20 minutes shooting about 125 infrared flash candids, then walked out when I got bored. I am always amazed how BH promotes their museum, which is just 2 shelves in a small glass case. . BH's store is draw dropping, but their camera museum is really embarrassing. Can't send in a photo of it as analog only.

BrianShaw · Dec 17, 2018

I wasn’t aware that they had a “museum”.

AgX · Dec 17, 2018

I guess you refer to these three shelves:
https://www.popco.net/zboard/view.php?id=dica_forum_nikon&no=13100

If they would regularly shift cameras and got decent texts, it could be interesting. Less can be more.
Why not just show 2 cameras but with contrary design approaches?

Andrew O'Neill · Dec 17, 2018

My display cabinet outside my classroom is more impressive.

faberryman · Dec 17, 2018

Slow day looking for something to complain about?

slackercrurster · Dec 17, 2018

AgX said:
I guess you refer to these three shelves:
https://www.popco.net/zboard/view.php?id=dica_forum_nikon&no=13100

If they would regularly shift cameras and got decent texts, it could be interesting. Less can be more.
Why not just show 2 cameras but with contrary design approaches?

Correct. Just top two shelves. Bottom shelf is for sale and not in the museum.

I kept looking for a separate museum room. I asked a worker and he said that was it.

warden · Dec 17, 2018

slackercrurster said:
I did a shoot at BH yesterday. I was near Penn Station and it was raining like hell. I thought I'd duck in BH to get out of the rain and also give them a little infrared radiation. I shot for about 20 minutes shooting about 125 infrared flash candids, then walked out when I got bored. I am always amazed how BH promotes their museum, which is just 2 shelves in a small glass case. . BH's store is draw dropping, but their camera museum is really embarrassing. Can't send in a photo of it as analog only.

They promote a museum? I've never heard of it and I've shopped there for years. I can't find mention of it on their web site. Did a google search and came up with nothing.

Born2Late · Dec 17, 2018

Well, the closest I've ever been to a camera museum is my basement, so at least they have something.

RalphLambrecht · Dec 17, 2018

slackercrurster said:
I did a shoot at BH yesterday. I was near Penn Station and it was raining like hell. I thought I'd duck in BH to get out of the rain and also give them a little infrared radiation. I shot for about 20 minutes shooting about 125 infrared flash candids, then walked out when I got bored. I am always amazed how BH promotes their museum, which is just 2 shelves in a small glass case. . BH's store is draw dropping, but their camera museum is really embarrassing. Can't send in a photo of it as analog only.

just wait a couple of years and it will be massive, including digital cameras.

NB23 · Dec 18, 2018

I still regret not having purchased a mint and well priced noctilux f1.2 from their “museum”...

CropDusterMan · Dec 18, 2018

Hmm...looks like the big Canon L Series lens on the bottom is the 1200mm F5.6. Years ago I worked as an assistant to Heinz
Kluetmeier at Sports Illustrated and the magazine owned two of them in their equipment department. They were about a $100K
a piece back then, and made on demand...I was told there were only a few ever made. Mel Levine, who ran the equipment
dept. at the time showed me one...but I couldn't touch!! LOL.

Pentode · Dec 18, 2018

slackercrurster said:
I am always amazed how BH promotes their museum

I was unaware that they promoted their museum at all. Been shopping there since the early ‘90s.

Do you feel the admission charge for their museum was too high?

dmr · Dec 18, 2018

BrianShaw said:
I wasn’t aware that they had a “museum”.

Same here. This is the first I've ever heard of it.

guangong · Dec 18, 2018

I visit the used department when near BH to visit an old friend working in the used department. Never heard that they were bragging about museum...I just thought it was a few items on show to break boredom while standing in line. There is/was a small camera museum in NJ, where we had a couple Zeiss Historica meetings when it was a more active outfit.
Of course the cameras use film...the OP obviously shoots digital...a 125 pics in 20 min?

slackercrurster · Dec 18, 2018

jawarden said:
They promote a museum? I've never heard of it and I've shopped there for years. I can't find mention of it on their web site. Did a google search and came up with nothing.

Promote it as in signs in the case, curator names, etc. Just a joke calling it a museum.

slackercrurster · Dec 18, 2018

guangong said:
I visit the used department when near BH to visit an old friend working in the used department. Never heard that they were bragging about museum...I just thought it was a few items on show to break boredom while standing in line. There is/was a small camera museum in NJ, where we had a couple Zeiss Historica meetings when it was a more active outfit.
Of course the cameras use film...the OP obviously shoots digital...a 125 pics in 20 min?

No, they are not bragging about it. Just signs in the case.

slackercrurster · Dec 18, 2018

NB23 said:
I still regret not having purchased a mint and well priced noctilux f1.2 from their “museum”...

They don't sell their museum pieces. Says it right there at the museum.

NB23 · Dec 18, 2018

Well, how can a Mint Noctilux f1.2 NOT be a museum piece? Especially if it was on display on one of those shelves?

Besides, I’m still regreting.

removed account4 · Dec 18, 2018

slackercrurster said:
I did a shoot at BH yesterday. I was near Penn Station and it was raining like hell. I thought I'd duck in BH to get out of the rain and also give them a little infrared radiation. I shot for about 20 minutes shooting about 125 infrared flash candids, then walked out when I got bored. I am always amazed how BH promotes their museum, which is just 2 shelves in a small glass case. . BH's store is draw dropping, but their camera museum is really embarrassing. Can't send in a photo of it as analog only.

dude
its a curiosity case who cares that it isn't a high end museum. most people shopping at b+h have never seen a polaroid swinger
or whatever other stuff is in there you are complaining about LOL
most people don't even know what film is or that well, you know polaroid sold anything but batteries that have like a 3 day shelf life...

slackercrurster said:
They don't sell their museum pieces. Says it right there at the museum.

excellent !
when i was at the murdo campground in murdo south dakota .. it took forever to get the tent pegs in the hard ground ..
on the camp ground receipt for payment ( it was like $10/night ) it was a free ticket to see their world famous doll museum
gotta say it was pretty creepy. i even had a conversation with some guy sitting on a bench who didn't say nothing .. turns out he was a doll.
anyways museums are kind of fun and quirky. too bad theirs to you was kind of irky...

YMMVFTSITW

BrianShaw · Dec 18, 2018

Any doll museum would be a creepy experience. But in Murdo there once was a really interesting car, tractor and player piano museum... not quite as creepy.

choiliefan · Dec 18, 2018

Here's a real camera museum:
https://www.eastman.org/technology

Alan Edward Klein · Dec 18, 2018

Who cares about their museum (never heard of it)? What's more important is that they have free parking for one hour if you buy more than $100; two hours over $200 (I think that's the amount-check with them). Around the corner on 34th Street on the north side. Now that's worthwhile knowing about.

removed account4 · Dec 18, 2018

BrianShaw said:
Any doll museum would be a creepy experience. But in Murdo there once was a really interesting car, tractor and player piano museum... not quite as creepy.

YES !! the pioneer auto village
it is like across the street and down a little bit
kind of near the reptile gardens where they have
a very large dinosaur bone and will be happy to sell you
a trunk full of genuine south dakota rocks..
the pioneer auto village had elvis' pink harley
( insert a quarter in the slot it plays elvis music ! )
and like 2 hangars full of classic pinball machines..
yup, not so creepy

Alan Edward Klein · Dec 18, 2018

choiliefan said:
Here's a real camera museum:
https://www.eastman.org/technology

Yeah but B and H is still in business. Eastman is gone. Just a museum.

MattKing · Dec 18, 2018

Alan Edward Klein said:
Yeah but B and H is still in business. Eastman is gone. Just a museum.

Gee, I wonder who manufactured the brand new Ektachrome films that I just received? Could it be Eastman Kodak?
And the George Eastman museum is a vibrant and active museum.

B&H's Camera Museum is embarrassing

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