Where do you buy your Camera equipment?

[David]

Just curious to find out where you all shop for Camera equipment, personally I buy everything from retail outlets as i like to hold what im buying, and its good to get the opinion of a salesperson no matter how bias they may be ;)

[smurff]

all of the above lol

camera from havery norman, lenses from progear, odds and ends from trademe or John Thomson or gadget infinity.

-smurff

[StanW]

Wherever I can find what I want.

[Redal]

I buy almost everything from trademe, i do my home work before i buy anything, and havent been burnt yet :)

[nathanbarlow]

Combination of shops and trademe and ebay (though havent bought anything from there yet - shippings a bitch)

Shops if I'm spending more than 200-300 bucks on new gear, just because receipts and warranties are very handy. I havent actually bought anything brand new yet, except for a monopod (but was actually a gift)

Second hand (which i prefer - much cheaper) is trademe but I try to buy locally so I can go see/feel/tryout the goods. Then pay in person (sometimes you can get it a bit cheaper, as they dont have trademe fees to worry about) and collect. This is the main reason I havent bought from ebay yet, even though they have tons of second hand lenses and manual lenses and filters etc. That plus shipping.