{"id":289,"date":"2009-01-12T02:30:39","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T07:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=289"},"modified":"2010-07-27T01:07:51","modified_gmt":"2010-07-27T06:07:51","slug":"columbia-photo-supply-2912-devine-street-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=289","title":{"rendered":"Columbia Photo Supply, 2912 Devine Street: 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/01\/columbia_photo03.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/01\/columbia_photo03_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I only went in to <i>Columbia Photo Supply<\/i> once.  I have an old Fujica ST-605 35mm camera that my mother bought me in tenth grade (75 or 76 I think) for photography class.  Aside from a built in exposure meter, this is a completely manual SLR and had given me years of good service, and in fact I took a number of the older pictures on this site with it (for instance <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=52\">The Towers<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the film advance started giving me trouble resulting in double exposures in some cases and missed shots in others when I could not advance and cock the shutter at all.  With the closure of <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=151\">Jackson Cameras<\/a>, I didn't really know of a full service camera store in the old sense (a store that might actually have <i>local<\/i> people that knew something about fixing cameras), but I decided to try Columbia Photo.  I thought it did have a bit of that old <i>Jackson<\/i> atmosphere, and I enjoyed looking at all the paraphernalia like developer and stop baths that I hadn't come into contact with in years, but in the event it turned out that the camera was too old to get parts for, so I wasn't able to get it fixed.<\/p>\n<p>Not too long after that, the store went out of business, and now <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=53\">Rogers Brothers Fabrics<\/a> has moved from Trenholm Plaza into the old Columbia Photo building.<\/p>\n<p>And the camera saga had a fairly happy ending.  I went on ebay and got an identical ST-605 (which came from Australia with a roll of film showing some kid posing in his karate uniform with his pet rabbit..) which works fine and which I still use when I want to shoot something high-res (though that may change now that I have a new digital \"closing cam 2\").<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 27 July 2010<\/b>:  <i>Rogers Brothers<\/i> at this location <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=2405\">has now closed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I only went in to Columbia Photo Supply once. I have an old Fujica ST-605 35mm camera that my mother bought me in tenth grade (75 or 76 I think) for photography class. Aside from a built in exposure meter, this is a completely manual SLR and had given me years of good service, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[111,263,4],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-devine-street","tag-photography","tag-stores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}