Category: Camera store
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The Holiday Sales
How can you prevent a visit to the holiday sales from becoming an assault on the holiday senses? How can you keep your temper and sanity at 25% off? a. Gather all your money into a pile on the front lawn and burn it. The savour may tempt Heaven to send more, or you may…
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When The Parade Has Gone By
You can frequently pick up valuable fertiliser from the street. Ditto with the photo trade – when a commercial circus has come and gone, you would be a fool to try to follow the last of the horses but if you wait until the crowd thins you can pick up useful things. The DSLR era…
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Too Many White Folks On The Film Packet
No, I am not pulling your leg. A review I read regarding a Kodak colour negative film type contained a complaint that there were too many white people in the pictures printed on the packet containing 5 rolls. The film is popular in Europe and Asia…it might be produced in one of the Kodak factories…
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” We Can Order It For You “
Is no substitute for ” I can order it myself “. An older version of the photo trade in Perth revolved around the catalogue and order book. Things desired could only be obtained by consulting the appropriate shops, placing the appropriate order, and paying the appropriate deposit. Then waiting the appropriate length of time while…
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It’s Only Cheap Junk…
If it is cheap and it is junk. Lose either of those characteristics and it becomes a useful item…or a real concept. I went to a camera store that was in the process of being either torn down or built up. Possibly remodelled – possibly being looted. Hard to tell, but the only two staff…
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The Smart Money Is Staying In The Pocket
But advertising flyers are not written for people who have it. No, indeed. The glossy paper catalogues in the post or the highly-coloured webpages that arrive into your inbox are aimed at the stupid money. These advertisements pick a date of the year, assign a fictitious symbolism to it, and try to pry open wallets.…
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Even More Cleaning Power With The New, Blue Crystals
Get this year’s photographic system with extra vitamins. Your friends will all talk about you. Yep – especially when they see you coming round the corner with the new camera flapping on your neck strap. The word they will utter is ” Run! “. You will have a short period of time when you can…
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How Old Is Too Old?
I mean in photographic equipment…not in human lives. The essence of the photo trade for as long as I can remember has been the endless pressure for sales and purchase – for the substitution of new equipment or media for old. I’ve long wondered at the timing of this. When is the right time to…
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All You Need Is One Customer
And P.T. Barnum assured us that they are being supplied sixty an hour. Surely there is one for you. The traders at a trade show deserve all the respect and admiration they never seem to get. They transport enormous amounts of stock in expensive vans, stand patiently in draughty halls, and live on sausage rolls…
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Well, You Bought It…
Now, are you going to use it or was the expense just wasted? That’s a question for so many people in so many fields, that it deserves an answer from everyone. Are you going to exercise yourself and your purchase? Are you going to get value from your money? Are you made of steel, or…
Dr. Stein's Photographic Establishment 