EyesCoffee, a Black and White Photography Magazine ezine has compiled an excellent online guide for vintage camera hunters. He hails Mumbai’s Chor Bazaar [theives market] as a “Shopping Paradise for Vintage Camera in Mumbai”

Following the map on the guide book, we walked along Mutton Street. The first glimpse was stalls after stalls, filled with machinery and tools, somehow looked like ‘Ap Liu Street’ in Sham Shui Po of Hong Kong. Walking further along the street, after the first block, I found some shops selling antiques, second-handed, or junks. I prefer to calling them junks, rather than antiques, while the latter sometimes make people think of luxurious jewelery, ceramic, etc in the museum showcase. At the first time I bought a gramophone, which is a manually operated turntable (no power required), playing 78 RPM LP records.

Duncan C S Wong proprietor of EyeCoffee also adds a bargainers