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    The owner was very sweet, knowledgeable and helpful! Got my camera back within two days. Thank you! Highly recommend

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    Bill is just terrific and also very reasonable rates much cheaper than Canon service. Strong recommend.

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    We used to go here a lot prior to COVID and the fire. My husband purchased a couple of cameras and…read morewe would get our film developed here. Always had good experiences for the most part. We recently got back into film photography, so we decided that we wanted to hit up Central Camera to purchase some film, see about development services, and just look at their general stock. We waited about 15 or so minutes at the film counter and no one came over. We knew what we wanted and weren't looking to have some lengthy conversation. I was going to buy the five-roll box of Portra 400 and my husband was looking to get a few boxes of different black and white films to try out. We were really looking forward to purchasing today from a local business (and honestly, we'd probably purchase this amount of film + development monthly), but just being completely ignored was really frustrating. I don't mind paying more for film or for cameras or for development at a local shop. By going to a local shop, you are paying for their product curation and the person experience and not just being a random name printed out in on a packing slip. I don't expect to have my ass-kissed the entire time I'm in a store, but at least some acknowledgement of our presence would have been great. And if we were standing in the wrong spot to get serviced, some direction about where to go would have been great too. Move film and cameras to the same side of the store. That way your employees can stay behind the counters and still service guests who are interested in different products without having to zig-zag across the store. If someone is looking at a used camera for a long time, it would still allow the team to service more quick serve guests without neglecting one or the other. When we were there, guests and employees were bouncing around from counter to counter and it just looked completely inefficient for everyone. I would set it up as on the left is register, film/photo pickup, and then cameras. On the right should be Central Camera merch, Photo Booth, and bench. Keeps your repeat/quick serve guests closer to the front of the store and the more engaged customers towards the back.

    I'd consider myself a patient person but I literally downloaded this app just to tell anyone…read morebrowsing reviews to not come here. Have had multiple significantly poor experiences here. To start, when I sent my film ages ago for developing with them, they sent it to another lab (fine), but when I came in week after week they never had it back. When they had it back after two months, they didn't even have the flash drive with the scans. My friend gave his as well and literally never got it back, and the number on his tag was changed because they don't have a proper sorting system and just give you 6-digit numbers, so it's thrown out by now. This was the period where I decided to buy a setup to develop and scan my own. Next I had two things for my girlfriend's birthday. She found her camera too clunky. I went in to get a point and shoot. I got a camera before here and remembered it being somewhat reasonable and I had enough to get by getting gifts, it's a birthday after all, and I trusted the salesman enough to sell me one while I had my only 20-minute slot on the way to work before the day. I was extremely busy with many parts of my life more important than worrying over a camera. Long story short, no fault of the salesman who was a big help, I spent over $200 on a fucking point and shoot. I look it up a week later... this model is MAX $50 on eBay. There was one sealed in the original packaging for $150. I'm not sure what to call this other than a scam. Funny last bit, I went in for film last minute as well. Asked for slide film. Was told "Ehhh... that's pretty rare. There's only this." and it was $60 Fuji ??? I hadn't even seen this box in my 10 years of shooting. Well, maybe they were right at least? Anyways I went over to Bellows and got a box for a reasonable $20 out of their selection of 10 in 35 AND 120. You'd have to be out of your MIND like I was to believe this place is anything more than a tourist attraction. I have literally never had a good experience here and I don't know anyone else personally in photography circles that has. It's kind of a big joke around town. I've given my patience and chances but their entire scheme is a scam Would highly recommend any owners or longtime employees start speaking up to maybe, I don't know, get film to customers? Get a camera under 4x the market price? Spend less than 45 minutes per customer when the hours are exclusive to lunch breaks for 9-5 downtown workers and tourists?

    Chicago Camera Specialists - photographystores - Updated June 2026

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