At 07:07 AM 07/02/99 -0800, John Hudson wrote:
[snip]
>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...)
>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.
Garth
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