Report: Southern California Camera Expo

[Rodinal Addict]

Today I attended the Camera Expo, in Carson California. This is the longest running camera show on the west coast, and recently (unwillingly) moved from its long time venue in Buena Park.
This is a BIG show! There are lots of knowledgeable and well stocked exhibitors there, with many rangefinder cameras available. Leicas, Canon, Minolta, FSU, Nikon, all the preferred brands were shown. They even had medium format, Fuji, Pentax, xpan to fondle. They also had those three letter kinda cameras, this reporter paid little attention to them.
Good deals were to be had, with friendly negotiation and cash being the rule. This reporter even picked up a killer deal on a minty ( really) Gossen Luna Pro for $45.00.
Check out their website, with directions, and prices for display tables, ( you can broom some of your little used treasures there) at:
WWW.cameraexpo.com

This reporter attends just about every month. Incidentally, i have nothing at all to do with the show, its owners, or management. See ya there

 

[aizan]

i was there, too! had a nice look at the r2a. =)

 

[Rodinal Addict]

Oh Yea, forgot to mention, the wise and friendly Mr. Steve Gandy was there, showing a nearly complete line of Cosina Voightlander cameras and lenses. I got to compare the framelines of the R2A and R3A with my own contact enhanced eyes. Still can't decide.

 

[JonasYip]

I was there too, for a lot longer than usual. I consciously showed up with very little money and wound up going thru everyone's boxes of little miscellaneous things which I usually don't do... turns out I found a very nice Canon 135 brightline finder which I normally would have bypassed.

j

http://www.jonasyip.com