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Ultimate guide to Budapest’s best camera shops and photo services
The unique beauty of Budapest entices both amateur and professional photographers to capture the mood of this multifaceted city that holds something new for visual explorers on every corner. Whether you are a first-time shutterbug, an expert, or you wish to bring your photos to life and create unique souvenirs and memories of the Magyar metropolis, you’ll find Zorkis, Zenits, Rolleis, Olympuses, Nikons, Canons, and all accessories coexisting peacefully on the shelves of many of the shops found in our guide, in order to meet the needs of analog diehards and digital devotees alike.
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Café Analóg
The Budapest embassy of lomography, Café Analóg is a tiny coffee shop on chaotic Kazincy Street, with a clean interior enhanced with a huge and colorful lomo wall. The whitewashed shelves of the small shop are crammed with photo-related relics, such as cameras, films, canvas bags, t-shirts, tools, box camera keychains, smart phone photo accessories, and many other exciting items. Visitors can browse the shelves of the shop for real treasures, while sipping on a nice cup of coffee or hot chocolate, having a slice of cake, or reading retro photography magazines. Fans of analog photography will surely find something to their liking here, as besides lomography equipment, they feature instant film for Polaroids, 135 and 120 mm film for analog cameras, and they also take orders for photo developing. This café is more than just a regular shop, as the very helpful and friendly staff often organizes workshops and tours, where photo fans and amateurs alike can try out different cameras they might not have used before, take lomograhphs, and in case they enjoyed the experience, even get a brand-new lomography camera in the shop.