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     Finnegan Tinkerer Username: Finnegan Post Number: 10 Registered: 09-2009 Rating: N/A |
It has been a long time but the best place I knew of for old cameras was the pawn shop around the side of the post office in Rio Piedras off of Calle Arzuaga (Calle Monsenor Torres?). Not sure if he is still in business. He was there about 15 years ago and it seemed like he had been there forever so he might have retired by now. If he is still open see if he still has that shiny French Kodak folding camera on his shelf. Monte Piedad in Bayamon by the El Canton mall was sometimes good. They had a Canon F1N with the motor drive and lens for $125. once. Usually there was something there. Don't know if the pawn shops that encircle the AMA bus corral in Rio Piedras still exist but I did swap a Yashica Electro for $20. + a Zeiss Contaflex ages ago. If you ever go to Rep. Metro shopping center see if the Farmacia Gelpi still has its micro collection of cameras. I remember an old Rolleiflex. Generally phoning all the pawn shops, tiny camera stores and photo studios will produce something if you ask. I mention tiny camera shops because the little one in Santa Rosa Mall (Bayamon) once had a few Linhofs on the shelf but I was too late to buy them. Oh, yes, I started with Pentax also but I use mostly the alternate bodies made by Chinon or Sears (Ricoh). Of Pentax my favorites are the MX and the P30T but I don't have the MX. |