Re: Calumet Photographic has locked it's doors for the final time.

Bob <w8imo@xxxxxxxx> · Thu, 13 Mar 2014 15:36:28 -0400



    Hi, Nobody here,

        
        I bought my EOS 20D and 50D from a local store.  I bought my 550
        EX from a local store.  My Tamron 18-270 came from the same
        local  store.  My EOS 5D MK II was bought locally as was my 600
        EX-RT.  

        
        I have found that in many cases "brick and mortar" prices are
        the same or very close to the same.   Weighing shipping vs sales
        tax, the total cost difference is worth it.  I can see and try
        what I want to buy if I go locally.  Buying local gives me
        someplace and somebody I can talk with about "this vs that"
        about photography.  Can't do that on-line.

        
        Prior to going digital, my fil gear was all locally bought, and
        I believe, so was my "L" glass.

        
        Bob

        
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    On 3/13/2014 1:32 PM, Randy Little
      wrote:

    
      No one buys from a store anymore.   Only get my
        studio supplies locally and locally is still B&H or Adorama
        or Samy's or supplied by the studio if I am renting for a shoot.
         
        Camera makers aren't in much better shape.   The only thing
          keeping Nikon alive is that its also and R&D source for
          Mitsubishi who owns them.   They use it to write down against
          the rest of the company.  Sony was doing the same things with
          some of its outside assets like Imageworks.  So when margins
          get that tight and you want the premium price Calumet was
          always asking for even online its whats going to happen.  
        

          Randy S. Little

            http://www.rslittle.com/

            http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2325729/

              
        On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Hans
          Klemmer <hansklemmer@xxxxxxx>
          wrote:

          
            Does anyone on this list still buy their equipment and
            materials from a real brick and mortar store anymore?
            Sobering news in Chicago today is that Calumet US has ceased
            operations and shut down for good. A quick call to Calumet
            UK assures me that they are and will remain open for the
            foreseeable future. I guess the moral to this store is that
            if you don't want the last of your camera shops to close
            their doors, buy from them when you can instead of the
            faceless places on Amazon and ebay.

            
                Hans

                
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