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[color=#222222][font=arial, sans-seriFirst of all, every business must, of course, make a profit; that is legitimate and has to be the case, otherwise there is a risk of going bust.[/colo
[color=#222222][font=arial, sans-seriHowever, the photography retail sector in particular is home to two very different types of people.[/colo
[color=#222222][font=arial, sans-seriOne type are simply merchants: buying as cheaply as possible and selling at a high price. This is most blatantly evident on eBay, where coloured plastic discs are sold as filters for black-and-white photography – and even that is only revealed upon enquiry. The price had piqued my curiosity.[/colo
[color=#222222][font=arial, sans-seriThe others are entrepreneurs who, with a great deal of passion and commitment—including financial support—advocate for the preservation of analogue photography.[/colo
[color=#222222][font=arial, sans-seriThey want to help ensure that the art of analogue photography and the craft aspect – the darkroom work – do not die out, and we should not leave them to do this alone.[/colo
[color=#222222][font=arial, sans-seriThey offer courses, commission materials, develop new products, and so on.....[/colo
[color=#222222][font=arial, sans-seriIn my opinion and experience, right at the forefront are our hosts – certainly a considerable enterprise in their own right – but also lone wolves such as Spürsinn, Lumiere Shop or Wolfgang Moersch.[/colo
[color=#222222][font=arial, sans-seriThey are not just businesspeople, but also have a great passion for analogue photography and offer quality.[/colo
[color=#222222][font=arial, sans-seriSo, friends of analogue photography, don’t buy from some obscure dealers or those who only sell.[/colo
[color=#222222][font=arial, sans-seriInstead, buy from those who champion analogue photography with passion and who know that photography is also a sensory experience, in the truest sense of the word, and not just about profit.[/colo
[color=#222222][font=arial, sans-seriBut I must admit, I always order my film from Foto Feldhege; that’s where I caught the photography bug over 40 years ago, and for me it’s incurable. My first camera was an AGFA for 126 cassettes, and the shop had been there for a very long time back then and it’s still there today.[/colo
