1 Each for Canon or Nikon. Excellent for Super Wide Angle Shots.
Jim Smetzer posted an item for sale.
July 10 at 9:50 AM ·
Sigma 8-16mm super wide angle lens for Canon or Nikon, 1 each (not full frame): $639.95.
Sigma 8-16mm super wide angle lens for Canon or Nikon, 1 each (not full frame): $639.95.
A new Art Gallery Downtown New Port Richey. Stop by and see what they're doing!
Downtown New Port Richey
July 8 at 2:11 PM ·
You asked and Art Lover's Boutique delivered:
#DowntownNPR once again has a dedicated art gallery!
Linda Smolski is the gallery’s owner and has filled the space with a beautifully curated collection from local artists. Join her Saturday evening for the Grand Opening Celebration of Art Lover's Boutique!
Saturday, July 11 from 6-9 PM 🗓
5647 Main St., Downtown NPR 📌
Complimentary wine & hors d’oeuvres 🍷
Meet and chat with the artists 👩🎨
Social distancing & masks enforced 😷
Jim Smetzer posted an item for sale.
June 20 at 9:16 AM ·
Antique cameras for sale. Fun conversation pieces to put on shelf. $4.95-$24.95. Stop in to Pasco Camera today and check them out. More inside store. 5405 Main Street. New Port Richey. 727-844-0904. Open Sat until 3:00 pm
Antique cameras for sale. Fun conversation pieces to put on shelf. $4.95-$24.95. Stop in to Pasco Camera today and check them out. More inside store. 5405 Main Street. New Port Richey. 727-844-0904. Open Sat until 3:00 pm
Pasco Camera Exchange
25th Anniversary: June 15, 2020
We did it Together
Thank you, Annette, for Believing in me
Jim Smetzer
22 hrs ·
The antique camera table is back at Pasco Camera. Inexpensive classic antiques for photo enthusiasts.
Thank you Jacob Freid, New Port Richey Marketing specialist, for sharing this with everyone on Facebook.
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A Milestone Anniversary for Pasco Camera Exchange — Downtown New Port Richey
An Interesting about Leica and the Jews during WWII. Share if it inspires you.
Orie Rutchick
July 13, 2020 at 3:13 PM ·
As a Jew first and a photographer second I found this article, shared by a friend, most interesting.
LEICA AND THE JEWS
The Leica is the pioneer 35mm camera. It is a German product - precise, minimalist, and utterly efficient.
Behind its worldwide acceptance as a creative tool was a family-owned, socially oriented firm that, during the Nazi era, acted with uncommon grace, generosity and modesty. E. Leitz Inc., designer and manufacturer of Germany's most famous photographic product, saved its Jews.
And Ernst Leitz II, the steely-eyed Protestant patriarch who headed the closely held firm as the Holocaust loomed across Europe , acted in such a way as to earn the title, "the photography industry's Schindler."
As soon as Adolf Hitler was named chancellor of Germany in 1933, Ernst Leitz II began receiving frantic calls from Jewish associates, asking for his help in getting them and their families out of the country. As Christians, Leitz and his family were immune to Nazi Germany's Nuremberg laws, which restricted the movement of Jews and limited their professional activities.
To help his Jewish workers and colleagues, Leitz quietly established what has become known among historians of the Holocaust as "the Leica Freedom Train," a covert means of allowing Jews to leave Germany in the guise of Leitz employees being assigned overseas.
Employees, retailers, family members, even friends of family members were "assigned" to Leitz sales offices in France, Britain, Hong Kong and the United States, Leitz's activities intensified after the Kristallnacht of November 1938, during which synagogues and Jewish shops were burned across Germany.
Before long, German "employees" were disembarking from the ocean liner Bremen at a New York pier and making their way to the Manhattan office of Leitz Inc., where executives quickly found them jobs in the photographic industry.
Each new arrival had around his or her neck the symbol of freedom - a new Leica camera.
The refugees were paid a stipend until they could find work. Out of this migration came designers, repair technicians, salespeople, marketers and writers for the photographic press.
Keeping the story quiet The "Leica Freedom Train" was at its height in 1938 and early 1939, delivering groups of refugees to New York every few weeks. Then, with the invasion of Poland on Sept. 1, 1939, Germany closed its borders.
By that time, hundreds of endangered Jews had escaped to America, thanks to the Leitzes' efforts. How did Ernst Leitz II and his staff get away with it?
Leitz, Inc. was an internationally recognized brand that reflected
credit on the newly resurgent Reich. The company produced cameras, range-finders and other optical systems for the German military. Also, the Nazi government desperately needed hard currency from abroad, and Leitz's single biggest market for optical goods was the United States.
Even so, members of the Leitz family and firm suffered for their good works. A top executive, Alfred Turk, was jailed for working to help Jews and freed only after the payment of a large bribe.
Leitz's daughter, Elsie Kuhn-Leitz, was imprisoned by the Gestapo after she was caught at the border, helping Jewish women cross into Switzerland . She eventually was freed but endured rough treatment in the course of questioning. She also fell under suspicion when she attempted to improve the living conditions of 700 to 800 Ukrainian slave laborers, all of them women, who had been assigned to work in the plant during the 1940s.
(After the war, Kuhn-Leitz received numerous honors for her humanitarian efforts, among them the Officier d'honneur des Palms Academic from France in 1965 and the Aristide Briand Medal from the European Academy in the 1970s.)
Why has no one told this story until now? According to the late Norman Lipton, a freelance writer and editor, the Leitz family wanted no publicity for its heroic efforts. Only after the last member of the Leitz family was dead did the "Leica Freedom Train" finally come to light.
It is now the subject of a book, "The Greatest Invention of the Leitz
Family: The Leica Freedom Train," by Frank Dabba Smith, a California-born Rabbi currently living in England.
Thank you for reading the above, and if you feel inclined as I did to pass it along to others, please do so. It only takes a few minutes.
Memories of the righteous should live on.
We received a trade-in on a couple of high end Autofocus Lenses for Canon and Nikon Cameras
Canon:
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 L series lens: $499.95
Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM Portrait lens: $274.95
Canon EF-s 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM lens: $399.95
Canon EF-s 18-135mm f/3/5-5.6 IS lens: $199.95
Tamron 70-200mm f/2.8 VC Gen. 2 Lens f/ Canon AF: $799.95
Sigma 2x Converter, f/ Sigma 150-600mm or 70-200mm f/2.8 lens on a Canon Camera: $99.95
Nikon:
Nikon 80-400mm 4.5-5.6 D Series* Lens: $399.95
*(Requires high end or older camera w/ AF motor in camera)
Canon Rebel T7 w/ 2 Lenses and Camera Bag!
This 24 MP Digital SLR Camera with a standard 18-55mm and a 75-300mm Telephoto Lens makes a great starting camera for the aspiring photographer in your family. Only $549.95.
Limited inventory in stock. Jim, Pasco Camera Exchange 727-844-0904
Our Small Business Saturday Canon Rebel T7 Camera Special Arrived Today! Get a Canon Rebel T7 w/ the 18-55mm lens, AND a Canon 70-300mm Telephoto Lens AND a Canon Camera bag for $499.95 after the $50 Instant savings. 3 in stock. Offer ends Monday Dec. 1st. http://pascocamera.com/canon-rebel-t6s-camera-body-only-or-w-18-135mm-stm-lens/
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Canon Rebel T7 Camera w/ 18-55mm Lens - Pasco Camera Exchange
Small Business Saturday: Nov. 28th. 9:30-3:00 PM Canon, Nikon, Sony Specials and In House Specials:
20% off All Memory Cards and Digital Camera Batteries
20% off all Camera Bags
20% off Most Tripods (Manfrotto Tripods Excluded)
10% off Photo Restoration Order of $50 or more.
FREE REUSABLE SHOPPING BAG W/ ANY PURCHASE
Canon Camera Owners: We just received some very good high end Canon Lenses. Check these out: Canon 70-200mm f/2.8 L USM Lens, $749.95; Canon 85mm f/1.8 Lens, $274.95; Canon 28-70mm f/2.8 Lens, $599.95; Canon 17-40mm L f/4 Lens, $399.95. Canon 100mm Macro lens (fungus on glass), $99.95 (possible you may consider getting repaired by Canon)