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SubjectRe: Colonial Photo & Hobby
FromSavageduck
Date04/18/2014 20:34 (04/18/2014 11:34)
Message-ID<2014041811344489553-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom>
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FollowsTony Cooper
On 2014-04-18 17:59:16 +0000, Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com>said:

Tony Cooper
On Fri, 18 Apr 2014 08:02:30 -0700, Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com>wrote:

Savageduck
Hell! I have been in a Staples Office Supply which has a better photo inventory than our local Best Buy. However, they both have the same lack of knowledge when it comes to photography equipment. Not the most comprehensive inventory, and not the best pricing, They will show you a D800 body (yup! they have D800s at Staples) for $3449.99 and tell you to consider a Canon T3i + kit lens for $599 because they believe it to be a similar product.

Tony Cooper
Anecdotal evidence has no extendibility, but I can send you to a Staples where the clerk - if you get the right one -

...and that is the critical caveat isn't it? You might by chance end up with a very knowledgeable clerk at a Best Buy, but I wouldn't bank on that.

What I am saying is Staples & Best Buy have a similar approach to their camera inventory and sales clerks.

is much more than competent. His father owned a used camera store back in the film days, he grew up developing film,

So? Most of us old farts in this room grew up developing film. I certainly did, with my first memories of my father's darkroom sometime around 1952. I continued with wet darkroom work through high school and college with a few interruptions along the way. Then in the period of 1974 to 1983 life gave me little room for photography and all I held on to were my cameras two of which I still have and are quite functional. The darkroom equipment is long gone. In 1996 I moved into the world of digital photography and I have been scratching that itch ever since.

and he's active semi-pro photographer himself. He does some family portraits on commission, but works at Staples as his "regular" job to support his family of four while he completes his master's at UCF.

That's nice.

-- Regards,

Savageduck