List member Mike Shupe gave me a heads-up on this a while back so maybe it's not news to others as well, but I learned/confirmed recently that Camera World in Portland, Oregon is "under new management". As Mike told me, Ritz Cameras has apparently bought it out, or has a controlling interest, or something. Going to the pervious Camera World web address redirects you to another address with "ritz" in it. Also I see that they are now carrying Quantaray lenses (oh boy, oh boy). And their prices have changed too; for instance, the Elan 7 body is no longer $30 higher than B&H...it's now $65 more! Yep, that's Ritz.
Maybe the only good thing is that they've done a clean-sweep and replaced the showroom sales staff that usually treated (List member) Evrim Icoz like a non-entity when he came in. Gary Russell * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
