In the Triangle, NC, there's two, one of them with two stores.

Peace Camera in Raleigh has an absolutely insane selection of old gear. When you think an old hand Photo Store, this is it. Crowded with stuff, musty, etc.

The inevitable, necessary tradeoff? They're stuck-up assholes, until and unless they see you buying film. Then they're civilized.

The other is Southeastern, which isn't nearly as awesome, but they're much nicer. In their Raleigh store, they do run a rental business like that, and in their Carrboro store they've got an full lab, including E6. I haven't used it, though; I've always run C41 to CCI in Durham and E6 to JW in Raleigh.

I understand there used to be an awesome store in Cameron Village, but it closed before I got to the area and was replaced by a smaller Wolf Camera, which I think is closed itself now.

Photo Continental In Brisbane, horrible customer service.

>>992215
I feel your pain, worst camera shop out.

Wellington, NZ.
All the stores that sell new gear are pretty faceless. The two biggest ones try to support film, but carry shitty stock, and even worse stock of paper/chems. No biggie, it's cheaper from overseas anyway.
There is one hidden gem of a used store though, and two places that are repair experts for old gear, so I can't complain too much. I never buy anything new here though.

>>992232

From where overseas can you buy chemicals, and is it legal?

Tempe Camera - somewhat normal, mentor-like owners and workers.

Photomark - lolpro faggots who think they're better than you and everyone else.

I like my place, nice building, friendly staff, prices are fare but not the best.
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>>992255
>prices are fare

>>992252
And also, Tempe Camer matched B&H's price.

>>992255
Ahh! Where the hell is this? I wouldn't mind working there at all...

But the more I think about it, the easier it seems it would be to bring good service and convenience to photography stores. It would just be an issue of getting the funding - I can't imagine anyone wanting to give you the startup funds you'd need to get a decent variety of lenses in stock. And that's to say nothing of the location, advertising, etc... that you start paying when you open up the actual store.

i live in brooklyn.
i visit adorama and B&H all the time, which is where i buy film and test out all kinds of gear. but i only buy digital gear from newegg.com because its always significantly cheaper, usually because of taxes

>>992266

tell me what Brooklyn is like? I kinda want to live there at some point while I'm in the US (girlfriend is in Orlando, born and raised in Brooklyn)

Ran into a small shop in Akasaka recently that has a fuckton of vintage cameras. I don't think I've ever seen so many Leicas and Hasselblads in a single area before.

Didn't get the name of the place though.

>>992236
Yeah it's legal. Depends what kinds of chems you want and where you are, etc.

>>992269
its ok. each neighborhood has its own distinct people and buildings. rents expensive as shit but there are all kinds of jobs available. Manhattans extremely easy to access.

where are you from?

>>992273
NZ is good like that alot of things are legal but then there is alot of stupid thing that should be legal

I live in Hastings.... we have no real camera shop

>>992198

>>992291
arent the gun control laws in NZ extraordinarily loose?

>>992291
Oh sweet, do you do your own B&W developing/would like to? There's a surprising amount of people here that do it + colour developing at home too. I'm just starting to get into making my own developer/fix from raw chemicals. It's more than possible here. You just have to search a lot to do it.

>>992296
Compared to where? There is a reasonably high level of ownership, and if you know where to go you can get one illegally. But gun ownership is pretty strict by the book. Though in a country with a rich farming tradition and a lot of keen hunters, there's a few of them out there.

>>992290
>>992290

Melbourne, Australia

>>992306
compared to even the US. i heard australia has the worst laws ever.
but this is all info i got from /k/

>>992296
for a rifle
you need a few witnesses to say your not a nutter, show where the guns will go and not have been in jail that's about it.

handguns
I think you need to show that your a collector and go through much more scrutiny on character witnesses

anything auto and i think semi-auto is a no go unless your the army

there's not alot of guns here tho we just don't care for them that much unless you go out hunter oh and they recently made spotlighting illegal so we can't drive around shooting on car's anymore

>>992306
no its not really from what i know maybe its different in the citys than in the smaller places

>>992308
I've literally never met an Australian in Brooklyn. but your neighbors are never nice to you unless you live in williamsburg. AKA hipsterville.

>>992306
>There is a reasonably high level of ownership

you might be right aout that come to think of it hastings has like 4 gun shops for 50,000 people and there all going strong

>>992311
damn thats almost as bad as new york state.
and new york city is probably as bad as north korea

>>992311
There are actually a lot of guns here. A quarter of a million registered owners and 1.1 million registered firearms.

>>992319
well here its more like how you gonna hunt with a handgun so there isnt much point.

we don't "have the right to bear arms" or anything like that, so anything that can't be used for hunting they will wounder why you have it and whats it for hence the collector thing.

>>992321

fuck i didnt think that much out of 4,000,000 that's not that bad

>>992323
well i would think that NZ isnt actually a prime location for undesirable minorities.

IT'S STRAIGHT UP SHIT!
Really.
We've got some bodies yeah, a few lenses, one shop has Sigma and that's it. A few flashes.
The only film they sell is Kodak Gold and Sensia 100. Fucking bullshit. The Netherlands is shit.

Hipsterville, Ausf@g.

Fuck those fotoreisel cunts. Always over pricing their shit. But they are good to answer your questions.

>>992326
seriously, theres really no point to owning guns if theres no minorities around.

>>992326
Not in huge numbers, but you'd be surprised.
But in saying that, there's no reason why any civilian needs to own a handgun, but that's a kettle of fish I wish I hadn't opened here.

They're all shit.
They're full of entry level shits and maybe have a 5dmk2 and a L glass on the front of the shop to make all teenagers go "WOOAH". They only sell kodak consumer film and they look weird at you if ask for film. Last time I bought one I was looking for a B&W film and girl at the desk tells me "just buy colour and you can make it B&W if you want later"
They're decent for printing photobooks though

>>992335
In Barcelona, Casanova Foto and Arpi
PROS:
- They sell anything from shitty casio p&s to H4D 'blads, chemicals, lighting stuff, books, large format stuff, second hand stuff...
- Guys who work there know their stuff.
- They have their own repair service themselves

CONS:
Highly overpriced. Specially second hand stuff, but it comes with one year warranty...

probably ted's on pitt st. i just go there to stock up on 120 film because they have a wide variety. the staff are a snobby bunch of wanks, the ones i've talked to at least.

lucky camera - the most overpriced shop in Tokyo