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Columbus Camera Group
Columbus Camera Group
When I lived in Cincinnati, I used to drive up to Columbus Ohio to visit Columbus Camera Group... That was in the late 70'.
They were in an old (huge) church. There were many old glass display cases, and large folding tables of equipment. Customers would wander around, handle all the stuff, pull cardboard boxes full of inventory from under the tables and sort through tons of old stuff. I bought my first LF kit there, and my first Zeizz Ikon TLR, and a Mamiya S2a, plus a Kowa 6X6 SLR.
They are still in business, and I think they are still in the old church building.
They do sell on eBay, and this is a listing to their eBay Store inventory:
http://stores.ebay.com/Columbus-Camera-Group
http://columbuscameragroup.com/who-we-are/
Yep.. still in the Old Church where they started. I would call it selling camera equipment under God's Watchful Eye. Now how could you get a bad deal there.
Not too far from CCG... was Midwest Photo Exchange. However, I did not spend much time there, since when I drove to Columbus, I made a beeline for CCG and hung out there until after dark, then drove back to Cinci.
MPE had a wonderful reputation as well as CCG. I pored through both of their multipage classifieds in the OLD rag paper Shutterbug every new issue.
Columbus Camera Group
When I lived in Cincinnati, I used to drive up to Columbus Ohio to visit Columbus Camera Group... That was in the late 70'.
They were in an old (huge) church. There were many old glass display cases, and large folding tables of equipment. Customers would wander around, handle all the stuff, pull cardboard boxes full of inventory from under the tables and sort through tons of old stuff. I bought my first LF kit there, and my first Zeizz Ikon TLR, and a Mamiya S2a, plus a Kowa 6X6 SLR.
They are still in business, and I think they are still in the old church building.
They do sell on eBay, and this is a listing to their eBay Store inventory:
http://stores.ebay.com/Columbus-Camera-Group
http://columbuscameragroup.com/who-we-are/
Yep.. still in the Old Church where they started. I would call it selling camera equipment under God's Watchful Eye. Now how could you get a bad deal there.
Not too far from CCG... was Midwest Photo Exchange. However, I did not spend much time there, since when I drove to Columbus, I made a beeline for CCG and hung out there until after dark, then drove back to Cinci.
MPE had a wonderful reputation as well as CCG. I pored through both of their multipage classifieds in the OLD rag paper Shutterbug every new issue.
