Here's a plug for a couple of local photography shops in the Portland, OR area: Citizens Photo and Pro Photo Supply. Shutterbug is another store that is not tied in with one of those big chains.
Jim A. > From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net > Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 16:45:13 -0600 > To: <pentax-discuss@pdml.net> > Subject: Re: Film is dead... (NOT) > Resent-From: pentax-discuss@pdml.net > Resent-Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 18:55:15 -0400 > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Graywolf" > Subject: Re: Film is dead... (NOT) > > >> Actually, Bob, I beg to differ. Photography became big business. The money >> grubbers, like Ritz, bought the camera stores from the camera enthusiasts. >> The got rid of the interesting high-end stuff that did not sell fast, and >> replaced them with a minilab. They laid off the decently paid enthusiasts >> behind the counter and replaced them with minimum-wage off-the-street >> part-timer clerks. Now it is no longer a big bucks business, so the money >> grubbers are moving to something else. Only there are very few enthusiast >> stores left. Mail order took over a lot of that slack in the 80's and >> 90's, so there may never be new enthusiast shops. >> >> We did not abandon the local shops, they abandoned us. > > The local shops got killed by the first run of mass merchandisers, you had > your Ritz Cameras in the states, we had an entity called Astral Photo. > > William Robb > >
