From the course: The Traveling Photographer: Hong Kong

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Camera hunting in Champagne Court

Camera hunting in Champagne Court

I'm here today with Billy Ho at the All Good Friend Camera Store in Champagne Court in TST in Kowloon, is that right? Yes. Billy, thank you. Yeah, hi there, nice to meet you. (laughing) (laughing) Thank you for having us. So, I have to say, I first walked into this area, by mistake, on accident, the first time I was here in Hong Kong in 2012, and my jaw dropped to the floor. You're looking at one camera store, but there are six camera stores like this? Yeah, I run five or six. Five or six? It's like used camera heaven. If you're a photographer and you're coming to Hong Kong, you can't not come here. This place is just amazing. So, you've been here ten years, your dad was here, how long? For over 40 years. Forty years, forty years. So, this is like heaven for old photographers. We're surrounded by hundreds and hundreds of film cameras, Nikon, Leica, Hasselblad. Hasselblad, yeah. Everything, everything. So you see people come in here all the time, for the first time, what do you see…

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