Name: Tokyo Cheap Camera Guide - Akihabara
Uploaded: 2020-12-15T20:31:26.000Z
Duration: 10 min 6 s
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We're talking cheap camera gear right here in Akihabara e.

I wasn't even planning on making this video today, but e o So you're saying you need three cameras?

But I'm gonna need an extra camera because I've only got two and I need a third.

So Step one is to find the actual camera.

I do like to buy things in a physical shop whenever I can.

Sometimes I do purchase online when it's much cheaper.

But Japan has a great price compare site That not only helps you find the cheapest option, but find the ones that have physical shops as well.

There are three criteria that I wanna meet.

Number one, low price number two, If I can't physical store and number three, I want to find a place that actually has their own insurance policy because I tend to break my gear.

This wink shop right here it's in Tokyo and they have a shop.

And if you look over here, they do have warranty options.

It seems to meet all the criteria, so we're gonna go check them.

And since the shop is in Akihabara, it gives us the option to take a look at some other camera stores, including some that should be avoided.

Additionally, I'm going to sneak in a small hack here on how to get stuff cheaper.

We're in Akihabara, an area of Tokyo known for its availability of electron ICS and everything like that.

There's no shortage of Elektronik shops here, but there are a couple that you should avoid one of the ones that I would recommend avoiding is behind me here.

So down over here we have this way he Tokyo station way have this place.

While the shop does have pretty friendly staff in a wide range of used camera gear prices are not ideal.

Some of the used lenses in there are actually pretty close to their original prices.

You can usually find it on, like Yahoo Auction or eBay for about half of the price of what you would find it for in that store.

Yeah, with Akihabara being such an electron, ICS focused area.

Ah, lot of people come here assuming that it's gonna be really easy to find camera gear or used camera gear.

But then they find out that it's mostly computers and electron ICS and stuff like that, not so much camera stuff.

So a lot of people would default by going to places like Yo Dobashi camera, soft map or even big camera.

I personally would recommend against this.

The main reason for this being is that the prices are very, very inflated.

One of the reasons for this is that they all have point card.

So you get about 10% of this back in points now, a little bit of a hack.

More often than not, if you tell them that you're willing to forfeit the points, they can actually decrease the price by the amount of points that they would give you.

So if you don't have a point, Carter, you're not interested in the points.

Well, so if you're just a tourist, get tax free.

So the shop that I found is pretty close to here.

E admit it feels a little odd to be walking this bridge right now.

Check it out if you're in Tokyo, All right, back to the camera.

It looks like the shop should be right around here somewhere.

Now that we found the shop, I'm gonna jump in.

I'm gonna grab my camera and the lens as well as my five year accidental damage insurance that I need.

And then I'm gonna show you guys some places to get used camera gear on the cheap.

Now There are a few things that you're gonna wanna watch out for with this shop number one, The opening hours.

It usually says from about 10 30 to 7, But some days like today, they do change it up to six PM Second thing is is it's cash only.

For those of you who are like, I don't need a physical shop, I could just do it all online.

In fact, the cheaper shops had this same gear that I'm buying today for about 10 bucks less each.

Or buy a cock cock or anything like that.

I wish I was camera gears and cheap, but the concerts got that covered.

Because if I'm gonna go all the way out to a shop to buy something, the customer service is gonna be on point.

All right, now we're under the used good.

So for used goods, there's three places I want to show you.

The first one is borderline obvious, but a lot of people don't think about it.

Book Off is probably my least favorite of the three options, but sometimes just sometimes you get something decent in there.

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