Originally posted by pete-tarmigan Bricks-and-mortar camera stores are doomed.
Maybe, maybe not. I think there will always be a place for a shop you can walk into and handle gear, but I agree they're almost certainly doomed if they don't have a web presence. Since I moved to Canada in 2011, bricks-and-mortar camera stores with a web presence have sold me a new K-5, all the DA limiteds except the 40mm (which I bought in a B&M store in Australia several years before) and a high-end Pentax OEM flash. Another such B&M store sold me a secondhand 28mm SMC Takumar (physically, over the counter). Yet another
would have sold me an FA31 if only I'd joined this comm three weeks earlier than I did and realised what I was being offered.
Next to that, Amazon can only claim the 18-135 and the DA 50.