Which is friendlier to visit: Auckland Camera or Photowarehouse?

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#171822 2-May-2015 06:25

In AKL for one day ... time to play with some lenses ... which one is friendlier and which one has more stuff?

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#1295459 2-May-2015 06:38

i guess all things being equal the former has free parking?

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#1295510 2-May-2015 09:46

Progear in Newmarket is awesome. I have bought almost all my gear from there.

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#1295542 2-May-2015 10:37

I shopped at Photo Warrhouse on Great North Road recently. The staff were friendly and helpful, the person I was dealing with spent a fair bit of time helping me pick out a new camera bag. They had a table set out so I could put all my gear in it to see if it what I needed. Quite useful!

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#1295595 2-May-2015 11:32

Yikes might run out of time to even do that ... Let's see ...

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#1296189 3-May-2015 17:11

I spent nearly two hours at Auckland Camera farting around with bodies, lenses and grilling various sales staff when deciding between the Fuji X-T1 and Olympus OM-D1 recently. The staff were friendly, helpful, tolerant and reasonably knowledgeable.

Happy enough to visit them again next time I need to test something.

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#1296386 4-May-2015 06:47

In the end managed to visit progear and i was like a kid in a candy store ... Now i have my heart melted by the Canon 85 1.2 II ... Ah in only i had a maserrati to trade it with ...

Also rang photo warehouse and the guy was very helpful.

Thanks all. That concludes the Thrifty trip.