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Palika: for photographers with thinner wallets
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If the doctor found some trace of photography in your blood report and if you happen to live in the city where I live (Delhi) and most importantly, if the size of your wallet has stopped to increase since time immemorial, then this is a must read for you. So great, you love photography and to your horror the megapixels, the sensors, and the parameters just refuse to stop for a blink. So here is the typical consumer story. Listen to it carefully - You start with a point & shoot – someone appreciates your work and you go and buy an SLR – now you realize unlike a point & shoot an SLR needs different lenses for zoom, for wide angle, for macro etc etc etc. So you go to the shop and buy a lens and work round the clock to pay off the credit bills with which you bought the lenses. The cycle of buying lenses and working even harder continues for a while until sanity decides to strike. So what do you do?
As you get off from your car/ from the metro at Connaught Place instead of heading to the showrooms, which one had been doing for months now, you re-direct yourself to the underground Palika Baazar. Claustrophobic, noisy, crowded and annoying shopkeepers who thinks your trouser might fall off if you didn’t buy their belts. There are a handful of shops inside this market that sell photography equipments. They normally entertain bargaining and offer good discount as compared to MRPs and even offer ‘their warranty’, which should take care of a chunk of your major worries. Now the best part about these shops is the sellers. In Palika they are the owners in most of the cases. So unlike the parrots in the showrooms, who will sing you ‘megapixels and sensors’ for all your queries, they are pretty well informed and acknowledge the fact that the person on the other side of the counter isn’t there to take lessons on photography. I recently bought a Sigma lens from one of the shops and left Palika in a hurry (which I mostly do, to feed my lungs with some fresh air even though the Delhi government has installed new air purifiers) and tried the new lens. The AF wasn’t working and I went back and showed him. He got it replaced immediately ‘NO QUESTIONS ASKED’.
The shot was taken outside one of my favourite shops in Palika Baazar, Delhi, India.
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