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Written by Dandolo
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Local
The wholesale dept. at the Black & Lizars
on Shandwick Place is where you'll find the best deals on film and
photo paper. Enter the door immediately to the left of the shopfront to
find the store on the first floor. Time your visit carefully; short
hours and a long break for lunch may leave you killing time at that infamous Forest clone, Ryan's Bar.
web site : map
Morningside's Cameratiks/Camerabase
is dedicated to fixing/trading used film cameras and equipment. Rather
expensive but you will get top performance from their wares and they
are a very helpful bunch to go in and talk to.
web site : map
If you have a fixed notion of what you are looking for and a nose for rats, search the Edinburgh Gumtree classifieds. Most eBay sellers will let you pick stuff up personally, so try running a fine search on say, film cameras in Edinburgh for instance.
The Saturday/Sunday car boot sale behind the Corn Exchange is heaps of fun.
On the Internet
Magnum
is a global photographic cooperative that put up a new series of shots
every day, mostly in black & white. Get inside their heads with the
'interactive essay' commentaries.
Photo.net is a smashing site for all sorts of photo taking. There's a guide to your first film camera and besides bringing your unfrequently asked questions to the forums , you can submit pictures for friendly scruitiny.
If all that's stopping you from picking up grandpa's old devil-box is an oily diaphragm, browse the repair manuals at Favourite Classics .
The equipment pages at Photoethnography.com give invaluable help with the less hyped-about camera formats and models especially if you are into in street photography.
Dutch polymath Alfred Klomp susses out some arcane kit. Homework reading for the fleamarket shopper.
Matt Denton's a gear-head at heart.
For those of you with a wiki-world-view there is Camerapedia .
Once you have your heart set on a system, put the wisdom accrued by your fanatical forbears to use:
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