ploafmaster Posted February 19, 2011 Share #1 Posted February 19, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) So I'm going to Budapest in 3 months, and I'm planning to bring my M3 along with a Mamiya C3 and my D90. Does anybody know of decent camera shops in the city? I'll pretty much be just in the city itself, so stuff outside the range of public transport would be too far. What I'm most interested in is finding places that sell used camera gear. I'd like to see if I could find any lenses to fit my M3 - Leica, Zeiss, or anything M39-mount, too, but if there are reputable camera shops that sell film as well (in case I forget to bring a particular kind I want to use), that would be useful, also. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted February 19, 2011 Posted February 19, 2011 Hi ploafmaster, Take a look here Camera shops in Budapest. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
Jeff S Posted February 20, 2011 Share #2 Posted February 20, 2011 Leica Camera AG - Dealer Locator Jeff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ploafmaster Posted February 20, 2011 Author Share #3 Posted February 20, 2011 Leica Camera AG - Dealer Locator Jeff Jeff, in my post I was asking about finding used gear. A Leica dealer list doesn't tell me much. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff S Posted February 20, 2011 Share #4 Posted February 20, 2011 Strange, both my local Leica dealers carry plenty of used gear. Or, you could be right...maybe nobody trades in equipment in Budapest. Jeff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ploafmaster Posted February 20, 2011 Author Share #5 Posted February 20, 2011 Strange, both my local Leica dealers carry plenty of used gear. Or, you could be right...maybe nobody trades in equipment in Budapest. Jeff Okay, so I'm sure authorized shops in Budapest carry used gear, but the nature of your initial reply wasn't too helpful. You just provided a link to Leica's dealer locator. But if somebody asks you for directions, do you just give them the URL for Google Maps? Leica's list (which I checked before posting here) has three shops, but no links to websites. I think I may have found websites for two of them, but they're in Hungarian. Even if I'm translating them, I'm only getting what the websites choose to say. I think it's fairly implicit that I'm hoping for information from people who have been to camera shops in Budapest (but they don't have to be people who live there). I want to know if a shop is worth visiting (service/selection, etc.). I can search the internet for myself to find shop names and addresses, but opinions are harder to come by. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff S Posted February 21, 2011 Share #6 Posted February 21, 2011 Okay, so I'm sure authorized shops in Budapest carry used gear, but the nature of your initial reply wasn't too helpful. You just provided a link to Leica's dealer locator. But if somebody asks you for directions, do you just give them the URL for Google Maps? Well, you're on an internet forum, not on the street asking me for directions. I easily found all 3 sites, with Google translations. But since you don't like my style of leading you to water, I'll let you navigate. No worries, it won't happen again. Jeff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ploafmaster Posted February 21, 2011 Author Share #7 Posted February 21, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) If anybody actually wants to help, I'm still looking for answers from people who have visited camera shops in Budapest and can tell me whether they're worthwhile. And I mean any camera shop, authorized dealer or not, that might sell used gear that could work on my M3. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted February 21, 2011 Share #8 Posted February 21, 2011 In general, eastern Europe is not a very good source for used Leica gear. Until just over a decade ago these countries were behind the Iron Curtain, so Leica cameras were as rare as Rolls-Royces, meaning nil. Any pre-war stuff has been sold to Westerners in the 1960-ies and 70-ies. So what you'll find is a few things of recent provenance and loads of Russian imitations, Feds, Zorkis, Jupiters etc. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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