Have Photo Stores Disappeard
December 3rd, 2011 | Author: admin
What has happened to the camera shop of our world? Video rental stores are practically extinct thanks to online rentals and video rental vending machines. Right behind them is the disappearance of photographic stores. I remember when I got my first camera and would run to the photograph store to develop film, but now there are no photography studios and stores left.
Photographs are now almost all digital photography, coming from digital SLR and digital cameras and put straight onto digital frames. If you would like to print a photograph you have got to go to a pharmacy or have them shipped from an online source. I recently sold my SLR digital camera and ordered a digital SLR camera from an internet digital camera sale. I was stuck with only a film camera just as I was going on a cross-country trip that was meant to last a month.
It was such a unbelievable surprise to see how much camera accessories had simply gone away. I could not find film to insert into the camera not to mention a shop that would actually develop it. With all of the technology advances in SLR digital cameras and other accessories like digital camera batteries and camera bags I’d have thought camera storefronts would still be left but the only stores that still sell DSLR cameras are now corporate electronic stores or online sites.
In contrast to the extinction of video stores, I believe there is still a requirement for camera stores and knowledgeable sales staff that will help me compare digital cameras. I desperately hope there might be an emergence of camera stores as consumers realize they need more info about cameras than a teenage sales clerk at a corporate electronic franchise can offer.
There is still hope! I recently stumbled on a camera store that managed to survive among the giant electronic chain stores thanks to the owner’s capability to explore his experience as a wedding photography. By selling the wedding photos through the storefront he was ready to offer deductions on frames, albums and physical prints for wedding packages. By utilizing the product that he had in his store and the reputation he had as a wedding ceremony photographer he was able to increase both enterprises and make a good living. Perhaps there is still hope for the camera shop.
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