Greetings! I am the junk scavenger from Tokyo!

[bobfriedman]

too bad i am no longer traveling to tokyo... akira showed me some very esoteric camera shops.. indeed many.

[Frank Fremerey]

I follow you now on flickr. I  am Gespür für Licht.
 Love your street style.

esp the Woman walkin up the stairs
bw
sunshine parallel to stairs
perfect graphics.

[richardHaw]

Congratulations for your site and for sharing your skills and experience.

Thank you, Abergon. Sharing what little knowledge I have because I do not want people to go through the mess that I had gone through due to lack of information, what ever is on the net is all scattered here and there

[richardHaw]

Hi, Rick, nice to have yet another guy living in Tokyo here!  Thanks for sharing your interesting blog!

We have another member living in Tokyo (Mikes) and some others who visit Tokyo occasionally.  Would be nice to have some NG meeting in Tokyo with you. 

that would be nice! and we could go junk hunting! よろしくお願いします！！！ 

[richardHaw]

Welcome Richard,

Great web page, thanks for sharing it

Thank you, Armando! i am going to make it look a bit more professional. 
never realised that maintaining a blog can be this time consuming, so I thought to have google ads in there

[richardHaw]

too bad i am no longer traveling to tokyo... akira showed me some very esoteric camera shops.. indeed many.

yes, japanese people seem to have this preoccupation of collecting and appreciating little things and curio. which in turn gives us this huge used photography equipment industry

[Akira]

too bad i am no longer traveling to tokyo... akira showed me some very esoteric camera shops.. indeed many.

Sad to hear that, Bob.  But maybe there could be another chance...

that would be nice! and we could go junk hunting! よろしくお願いします！！！ 

I would be glad to take you to the "esoteric" camera shops to which I took Bob to. 

[richardHaw]

I follow you now on flickr. I  am Gespür für Licht.
 Love your street style.

esp the Woman walkin up the stairs
bw
sunshine parallel to stairs
perfect graphics.

thank you, Frank. that was very encouraging.
i shoot bugs mostly but they are out of season, then i would shoot stock and news but they dont pay much. events is where the money is but I do not get enough of that here in Tokyo where i have been living for a couple of years due to the language and culture barrier. I do speak so-so japanese enough to be used in a studio environment but nowhere near native level 
i might stay in tokyo indefinitely because of the relatively low crime rate.

[richardHaw]

Sad to hear that, Bob.  But maybe there could be another chance...

I would be glad to take you to the "esoteric" camera shops to which I took Bob to. 

I have been to most of the shops here, but still looking for the mother of all junk shops 

our studio is in shinjuku so i pass by one or more everyday to take a peek at the junk section. i am actually going to ueno with a friend later and check the used camera shops there for junk

[Bruno Schroder]

Welcome here, Rick and thanks for the info on your blog. I precisely have a 50/1.4 S that would benefit from a good cleaning.

[Akira]

I have been to most of the shops here, but still looking for the mother of all junk shops 

our studio is in shinjuku so i pass by one or more everyday to take a peek at the junk section. i am actually going to ueno with a friend later and check the used camera shops there for junk

Ah ha!  So, you should be well aware of or even a repeating customer of the shops like Chuko Camera Box or Shinjuku Chuko Camera Shijou.

[Tristin]

Welcome Richard!   Judging by the fact that most nice copies of Nikkors on ebay come from Japan, I'm sure the second hand shops there are real treasures to dig through.  Around here you are quite lucky to find Nikkors.  Almost nothing but poor 3rd party offerings. 

[richardHaw]

Welcome here, Rick and thanks for the info on your blog. I precisely have a 50/1.4 S that would benefit from a good cleaning.

Thank you, Bruno!
if you have the bayonet plate with the screws, one of the screws there should NOT be removed or touched. I forgot to post a picture of it but it is the one near the stop. it holds a spring and has nothing to do with supporting the lens. 

[richardHaw]

Ah ha!  So, you should be well aware of or even a repeating customer of the shops like Chuko Camera Box or Shinjuku Chuko Camera Shijou.

i am a regular at 新宿カメラのアルプス or something like that (name is weird and i keep on forgetting it). the shop keepers know me by face and we sometimes exchange repair notes 
lucky is also one of the places that i visit but i like camera alps the most because they have been honest and reasonably OK to me. MAP camera is a place that i have been shopping since I came here in spring of 2010. the other places, i just visit when I happen to pass by. kitamura is OK, i am hitting on one of the girls there. 中古のカメラボックス, well i have bought stuff from them throughout the years, very friendly but the junks there can be a bit pricey. miyama is the friendliest, ニューカメラ is snobbish.

[richardHaw]

Welcome Richard!   Judging by the fact that most nice copies of Nikkors on ebay come from Japan, I'm sure the second hand shops there are real treasures to dig through.  Around here you are quite lucky to find Nikkors.  Almost nothing but poor 3rd party offerings. 

Thank you Tristin!
the prices have gone up!  mirrorless is driving the prices up at the moment all over the world and the demand is higher than it used to be! just take a look at the NOCT