pet peeve.. so many people buy from places like B&H as a default as if it is the only place that sells gear. Ignoring local shops that have the exact same prices!
Samy's Camera in San Francisco Permanently Closed
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Apparently, the renaissance or film alarm photography is highly exaggerated.
Ask Leica workers in how safe it is…
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Yea, I dropped by the Leica store when I went to Chinatown. So sad.
I bought my first Leica digital, aka, the Epson RD-1 at a LA Samy's. Almost an impulse buy. Love it. Sold it to get an M8, then sold that to get an M9. Funny how the RD-1 is now a "cult classic" and still worth as much as I sold it for, ... 15 years ago now? Nuts.
I bought my first Leica digital, aka, the Epson RD-1 at a LA Samy's. Almost an impulse buy. Love it. Sold it to get an M8, then sold that to get an M9. Funny how the RD-1 is now a "cult classic" and still worth as much as I sold it for, ... 15 years ago now? Nuts.
Store was targeted. Doesn't matter what the neighbourhhood is. You can tell because they drove away...
Years ago, before covid and the manufactured transient crisis, I used to work across from the Century City Mall. Beverly Hills adjacent. The Rolex store was repeatedly robbed. Criminals target high value targets. Simple as that.
… and then they started taking expensive watches off of people’s wrists as they waited for red lights or strolled Rodeo Drive or Melrose or Sunset or
That's been happening for at least 20 years now. Back in the day, the Westside Pavilion mall in West LA was a favourite target. People wearing bling would be followed to their cars.
Funny story. Back in the late 70s my father worked in a an embassy in Peru. Cars had no AC. So 2 people will steel your watch. One grabs the hand and defends the other takes your watch. So people started wearing their watches on the right hand. But the bandits had a solution. One guy grabs the hand and presses a lit cigar to your it. You instinctively reach with your right hand and they take your watch.
Funny story. Back in the late 70s my father worked in a an embassy in Peru. Cars had no AC. So 2 people will steel your watch. One grabs the hand and defends the other takes your watch. So people started wearing their watches on the right hand. But the bandits had a solution. One guy grabs the hand and presses a lit cigar to your it. You instinctively reach with your right hand and they take your watch.
Obviously we should start a thread called "Is Peru really that bad?"
Or a thread that is called: Is Amazon the only safe way to order goods and your house the place you should never leave?
pentaxuser
… and hopefully those threads will include some pictures rather than hollow promises of pictures.
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Some of us live in places where there is nowhere local to buy film, let alone gear.
Funny story. Back in the late 70s my father worked in a an embassy in Peru. Cars had no AC. So 2 people will steel your watch. One grabs the hand and defends the other takes your watch. So people started wearing their watches on the right hand. But the bandits had a solution. One guy grabs the hand and presses a lit cigar to your it. You instinctively reach with your right hand and they take your watch.
What's funny about that?
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Sammy's looks safe to me, at least compared to where I go to get chemistry, paper and film (insert). Almost a 2 hour drive to one of the top ten most dangerous cities, but at least they have a fence and barb wire, maybe that is why they are still in business.
I actually bought my first good SLR in San Fransico in 1973. Don't remember the name of the store, just that it was within walking distance of the hotel.
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I don't know, Bed Bath & Beyond can be deadly!
Yes, it's the "Beyond" that has me worried.
Camera store doing a rental business closes because the rent is too damn high. People on Photrio respond by
1. blaming the neighborhood for crime
2. saying the film revival is exaggerated - ignoring that camera stores also sell and rent digital cameras and related equipment.
Neither of these is related to the facts, they are just pet topics. Next, Photrio will say that the store closed because of stand development.
1. blaming the neighborhood for crime
2. saying the film revival is exaggerated - ignoring that camera stores also sell and rent digital cameras and related equipment.
Neither of these is related to the facts, they are just pet topics. Next, Photrio will say that the store closed because of stand development.
Actually I think it was that they couldn’t handle the trauma of knowing that Leica is selling new cameras that scratch film.
I dont know since it did not happen to me it is funny. Like somebody slipping on a banana.
In Peru no-one cares what the time is, so those watches are worthless! Joke is on the thieves.
That is funny too.
Hahahhaha
OK, nothing is happening here, move on folks.
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