North Plaza Camera Shop is a unique place where you can get great deals on new and used photographic equipment and still receive great customer service. In many stores today you can receive good deals, but most of those stores can not offer their technical experise to you, because they don't have any technical expertise. At North Plaza Camera Shop, we understand that there are many different kinds of photographers from weekend family photographers, and novices to pros and people who want to shoot like the pros. Here we can help you with all of your photographic needs and wants.
We offer a wide range of photographic and video services, everything from darkroom supplies to digital supplies and printing services.
* Video Transfers, Photo-Enlargments, buying and selling new and used equipment, digital printing, photo-restoration, camera repair, one hour photo lab, instant passport photos, custom framing, equipment rentals and much more.
See a map and get directions here. We are located at 3600 Brewerton Road North Syracuse.
- What condition is the equipment in?
- Does it work?
- The marketability of the equipment
- The demand for the equipment
- The supply on hand
- The price at which the item will be bought for
Photo-Restoration is a digital imaging process that restores and revitalizes pictures back to the original or an enhanced state. This process can fix colors, tones, rips, tears, water damage and other kinds of destroyed pictures. The cost varies depending on the type of restoration work being done to your picture.
Digital cameras have Instant Review -- Take a digital photo, review it on the camera's LCD screen. Don't like it? No problem. Erase it, and take it again. With film, you won't know if the subject has their eyes closed until the film is processed. The instant feedback and the "you got the shot" or not is a big plus for digital cameras.
Price
Although digital camera prices are falling rapidly, feature-for-feature you still can't beat film cameras. A higher-end consumer 35mm SLR (single lens reflex) film camera, around $500, is easily half the cost of its digital counterpart, even with the previously mentioned zero film cost of the digital. Although you can get a lot of digital camera for $500, you won't find all the features of a film camera.
Flexibility
With personal computers, the Internet, and low-cost, high quality scanners and photo printers, photographers have many more options for manipulating and distributing their work. When you have your film processed, you can have it put onto a Photo CD or you can buy a scanner and scan the prints or the negatives yourself. Either way, more time, money and effort is spent. If you photograph an event digitally, you simply plug the camera into the computer, push a few keys, and folks around the world can see it within moments. If you shoot on film, you'll get good prints and spend extra time and money "going digital". If you shoot digital, you'll spend extra time and money getting good prints. It's a trade-off, and the direction you go is based upon your level of "digital-ness".
Storage
Unless you are diligent about filing your negatives, how are you going to find a negative strip five years after you took the picture? This is a drawback of film photography and an advantage of digital. When transferring a digital photo from the camera to the computer, your photo editing software has the means to record the date you shot them and what camera settings you used, improve the appearance, crop and resize them, remove unsightly blemishes, and even record them onto CDs for safekeeping.