Jason Etzel from Sony Digital Imaging will be in store on October 2nd from 11 – 2 for equipment demonstrations and firmware updates. We hope you can join us.
Sony in store Oct 2 for firmware updates and demo
Author: John Tworsky
Tamron Meetup – Brook Hollow Winery – Sept 13
Tamron Meetup – Brook Hollow Winery – This is a Tamron sponsored event not run by Bergen County Camera. This event is open to everyone.
Tamron Meetup – Brook Hollow Winery
Tamron Photo Meet Up – Brook Hollow Winery Photo Trip
New Date – Change Due to Weather – Monday September 13th – 1:00 – 5:00pm
Meet up Location: 594 NJ-94, Columbia, NJ 07832
Join Patty Gregitis and Ken Hubbard from Tamron, for a fun filled photography meet up at beautiful Brook Hollow Winery. We will be at Brook Hollow from 1:00 – 5:00pm loaning lenses and answering all your photography questions as you stroll through the lush vineyards capturing images of the fully ripened grapes. First 20 individuals to borrow a lens will receive a wine tasting on us! Must be registered on meet-up to qualify and 21 years of age for wine tastings.
Additional bonus rebates available on select Tamron Lenses
About Ken Hubbard: Ken Hubbard is the Field Services Manager for Tamron. He is responsible for the company’s events, including Tamron’s popular consumer workshop series. Ken has had nationwide gallery showings of his portrait and landscape photography and teaches enthusiasts how to take better photos at numerous events. Ken’s extensive background in the field of photography is unique and diverse. He has traveled extensively throughout the US and the result is a consistent output of breathtaking photographs that continually challenge the boundaries of the genre.
Click here to Register Now for Tamron’s Photo Meet Up at Brook Hollow Winery.
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Covid-19 Update October 9, 2021
In-person – Virtual/Online – Delivery operations – Curbside Options
Current Updates:
- We are open for both in-store shopping and curbside pickup
- In-store shopping is available Monday – Saturday 10am – 5pm
- Now offering passport photos again – please call for appointments for groups or families, walk-ins available for individual passport photos – please arrive before 4:30 pm
- All business services resume
- Merv 16 Filtration on 3 HVAC air Handlers
- EME-H Halo In-Duct Air Purifier on 4 HVAC air Handlers
- In store classes will resume soon as the state continues toward a full re-opening.
Current Safety Measures:
- Masks are required for all employees working on sales floor
- For customers, please mask up if unvaccinated or want peace of mind
- Plexi-glass has been installed to provide physical barriers
- Social distancing is encouraged at all times
- Frequent hand washing practices (before and after interactions with customers)
- Frequent disinfecting will occur storewide
- Kiosk remain self-service with 6′ distancing
Please call us with any questions – 201-664-4113
Read moreBergen County Hazardous Waste Days 2021
Hazardous Waste Days open to Bergen County, NJ Residents Only
Most photo chemicals are considered hazardous waste so this is a great opportunity to safely dispose of what you are no longer using. This event is open to Bergen County, New Jersey residents only with ID. The following items are no accepted so please do not bring computers, electronics, batteries (only car and rechargeable accepted), or tires to these collections. If you have questions please call the Bergen County Hazardous Waste Hotline 201-807-5825. Information for other New Jersey Counties can be found at the NJ Hazardous Waste Coordinators website. Businesses must pre-register before the collection day by calling 201-807-8696 to make arrangements.
Bergen County Utility Authorities Hazardous Waste Day Flyer – Full Flyer
Covid-19 Update – March 2020
In light of the unprecedented developments posed by COVID-19, we want to share with our community the steps we’re taking during this challenging time to try and remain at your service and simultaneously insure the safety of our clients and staff. We’ve seen and risen to many challenges in our forty years of service to our greater community and it’s together that we’ll overcome this challenge and resume our full schedule of activities when conditions permit.
To insure all remain healthy, comfortable and to limit the spread of Covid-19,
we’re enacting the following protocols until further notice:
Store Environment:
Demo cameras and rental cameras will be wiped with isopropyl alcohol at regular intervals.
We will be cleaning all touch surfaces on a regular basis
We will follow best practices for social distancing with no handshakes or close personal contact.
Employees will be required to wash hands frequently and always after customer interactions.
Events and Gathering:
All classes have been cancelled
All focus sessions have been cancelled
Trips and Meetup planning has been put on hold.
As a company, we are asking any employee not feeling well to stay home and
rest. We ask the same of our customers. While visiting our retail store, if you
need to cough or sneeze, please cover your mouth and nose with a tissue, or
your upper sleeve.
Visit the CDC’s Cornavirus page to stay up-to-date on the latest news and hygiene tips to keep yourself and others safe. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nCoV
We will update everyone with revisions to our protocols if future travel and/or social gathering restrictions are enacted.
We have been closely monitoring and will continue to follow the recommendations of the WHO, the CDC and local Bergen County and Westwood government agencies .
We continue to operate under their guidance and recommendations. With the protocols we are taking, our store is safe and will remain open for business. We’re here in person, over the phone and on the web for processing online orders.
We recognize this is a time of uncertainty and unease and we wish for everyone in the community to stay safe. We trust that in our solidarity there is great strength. At the core of this company’s purpose is a desire for service , and we take it to heart in good times and especially during challenging times.
Thank you for your continued support and trust in Bergen County Camera, we’re always at your service!
Tom and Bob Gramegna
and the entire staff at
Bergen County Camera
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Bergen County Hazardous Waste Days 2020
Hazardous Waste Days open to Bergen County, NJ Residents Only
Most photo chemicals are considered hazardous waste so this is a great opportunity to safely dispose of what you are no longer using. This event is open to Bergen County, New Jersey residents only with ID. The following items are no accepted so please do not bring computers, electronics, batteries (only car and rechargeable accepted), or tires to these collections. If you have questions please call the Bergen County Hazardous Waste Hotline 201-807-5825. Information for other New Jersey Counties can be found at the NJ Hazardous Waste Co-ordinators website. Businesses must pre-register before the collection day by calling 201-807-8696 to make arrangements.
Bergen County Utility Authorities Hazardous Waste Day Flyer
TBT 12/10/19 – Leica M3 “Lucky 7” & Snap Balls
Tamron Holiday Rebates through January 5
Spooky Savings 40% off hdAlbum Photo Books
Save 40% through November 3, 2019
TBT – Nikkormat EL
Post by Paul Brodek our Used Equipment buyer
The Nikkormat EL is a fan favorite here at BCC, both for how it feels / handles and for what it represents. Introduced in 1972, it was Nikon’s first camera with an electronically-controlled shutter, and the first with aperture-priority exposure. Nikon managed to do this utilizing their original non-Ai lenses, since the Ai system wasn’t introduced until 1977. The FE is still the only Nikon camera to offer aperture-priority metering with non-Ai lenses.
The electronic shutter does usher in the bugaboo of battery dependency, and eliminates the charm of mechanically timed shutter speeds, but it also eliminates the charm of inaccurate shutter speeds and the need for expensive, and not infrequent, shutter cleaning/adjustment. Aperture-priority metering significantly speeds handling, minimizes missed moments, and increases your hit rate. Being an early implementation of aperture priority, the EL doesn’t have a separate adjustment dial for under/over exposure compensation, but an inward press of the self-timer lever locks exposure to make compensation easy for the knowledgeable photographer.
The EL also takes the prize for weirdest, best-hidden battery compartment in the camera world. The battery lives in an easily-overlooked compartment at the base of the mirror box, shown in the last photo.
The ELs simple control interface, and its build quality, is what makes it so endearing. Not being the step towards compactness taken by the FM/FE series, it fills your hands with brass and steel, and feels like a top-quality, all-mechanical, ’50s-’60s piece of hardware. Having that heft and smoothness combined with an electronic shutter and aperture priority is what makes the EL so endearing, and keeps bringing a smile to our faces when we pick one up, even today, 47 years (!!!!) later.
Our example is very well preserved, has been serviced, and is paired with a very clean 50/2 Nikkor non-Ai lens, for the low, low price of $279.99.
BTW, say hello to Gnomey, our camera gnome—cheese!