Portland's New & Used, Film & Digital, Camera shops

They also create a community, both with the friendly and free way the staff exchanges names with customers, and in throwing a customer show annually, which for opening night packs the streets of St Johns as if it were a happening big city.

This is a charming full-service film and digital photo center. It's located in one of the City's Water Offices, and you enter through heavy wooden doors. Your first view in is over beautiful old blond wood cabinetry, which houses new and used cameras and camera supplies.

While it's not as huge as Pro Photo Supply, it's also less crowded, and more charming. You can get the smallest, coolest digital, or a wide variety of film cameras, new and used. They have all the chemicals to set up your own dark room, and they do photo processing as well. You can get prints of your digital photos while you wait on weekdays too. Honestly, I was kinda overwhelmed by the level of service, by adult men who had worked in photography for a good portion of their adult lives.

They have a nice collection of new and used camera bags. Perhaps best of all is the collection of student cameras.

If you're a fan of old film cameras, you have to visit here.

This is an incredible little shop, made up only of photo processing, and gorgeous old used cameras. You have your choice here of Super 8s, Brownies, etc... basically, any non-toy camera, and even some of them, are here. They also have some bins of camera parts that could be useful if you're putting together your own pinhole. Mostly I was in awe of all of this photographic equipment that I have no idea what to do with.

The older guy working seemed happy to have someone come in, and he kept peppering me with questions: could he help me, was there something I was looking for, what was the weather like? I finally fessed up that I was a n00b, but that I found the aesthetics of the older cameras much better than their newer, digital cousins.