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Aug 30, 2019 17:30:19   #
coachejp
 
Any recommendations for camera stores in the WI. area Between Lacrosse, Eau Claire, Rochester MN.

Thank you EJP

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Aug 30, 2019 20:48:07   #
PixelStan77 Loc: Vermont/Chicago
 
coachejp wrote:
Any recommendations for camera stores in the WI. area Between Lacrosse, Eau Claire, Rochester MN.

Thank you EJP



Best Buy

Oak Pointe Plaza
Eau Claire, WI
(715) 833-0666

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Aug 31, 2019 08:58:42   #
Nikon1201
 
Google it , there has got to be camera stores in your area.

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Aug 31, 2019 08:59:13   #
Nikon1201
 
Google it , there has got to be camera stores in your area.

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Aug 31, 2019 09:17:32   #
GLSmith Loc: Tampa, Fl
 
Www.procam.com/. They carry stuff major stores don’t, staff extremely knowledgeable, great pricing

Example...I was on waiting list for Nikon 500 mm for months, they had 3...One classed as used, but with full5 year US warranty, in box all papers, at used price....2 other brand new boxes sealed.

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Aug 31, 2019 09:26:14   #
Bill 45
 
What a camera store? I have hear stories about them.

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Aug 31, 2019 11:37:17   #
williejoha
 
Camera stores that amount to anything ( people that actually know what they are talking about ) in the area you are talking about are a thing of the past. The last one was May’s in La Crosse run by Paul Petra’s the owner. He was killed in his store about 7 years ago. Call the people at B+H, they are very knowledgeable.
WJH

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Aug 31, 2019 11:42:05   #
Basil_O Loc: Minneapolis, MN
 
williejoha wrote:
Camera stores that amount to anything ( people that actually know what they are talking about ) in the area you are talking about are a thing of the past. The last one was May’s in La Crosse run by Paul Petra’s the owner. He was killed in his store about 7 years ago. Call the people at B+H, they are very knowledgeable.
WJH


It's a little out of the way, but National Camera or West Photo in Minneaolis are the last and best in the cities.

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Aug 31, 2019 14:25:49   #
NormanTheGr8 Loc: Racine, Wisconsin
 
Again out of your stated area but Art's Cameras Plus in Milwaukee and Waukesha gets all my business

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Aug 31, 2019 16:45:45   #
rb61 Loc: Maple Grove, MN
 
Basil_O wrote:
It's a little out of the way, but National Camera or West Photo in Minneaolis are the last and best in the cities.


+1

I had not been in West for approximately 30 years because the last time I was told to leave if I was not planning to buy something. This time, looking for a tripod that National didn't carry- great experience.

National carries MFT and has a web store, West does not.

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Sep 1, 2019 00:22:46   #
Jaki
 
B&H out of New York is the best! A lot of expertise in the sales people and Best Buy’s! They have extensive on line presence!

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Sep 1, 2019 16:09:24   #
photoam Loc: Fergus Falls, MN
 
I use National Camera Exchange in the Minneapolis area. They have branches near Southdale in Edina/Mpls; near Rosedale Center in Roseville/St Paul; Burnsville; and one in Maple Grove. I think they’re based in Twin Cities.
Roseville is where I bought my last camera. They talked me into a Canon G1X mark 3 because of its large sensor. I like the camera. (I was upgrading from a Canon G9X mark 1).
All 3 of my Canons over the last 15 years have been bought at their stores. They seem knowledgeable to me.

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Sep 2, 2019 07:40:11   #
lev29 Loc: Born and living in MA.
 
Nikon1201 wrote:
Google it , there has got to be camera stores in your area.
Nikon1201,
Please don’t take this personally, despite your perseveration, but "Google it" (or Bing it or Duck it or Wow! It) ... does not, in my experience, always work so efficiently when one searches for retail stores that actually exist in the present!

Why? Because once a store is listed on the internet, usually no one takes the listing down when the store moved or goes out of business. That means one needs to verify a particular store's existence and street address by phoning it (if someone bothers to answer,) or going to the store's website, if it has one, and G-d forbid if the store is part of a small chain and has outsourced its website management to some guy sipping designer coffee who checks on it every few months, thus doesn’t keep up with where stores have moved (yes, this actually happened to me.)

So please, to you and everybody else that casually perseverates about "googling it," it ain’t always so.

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Sep 3, 2019 11:37:05   #
henryp Loc: New York, NY
 
Jaki wrote:
B&H out of New York is the best!

Thank you.

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