Photographed at 412 Smith Street, Brooklyn — November 2024.
The Catalog — Autumn 2025
Every body on this page was inspected on our bench in Brooklyn. New or certified pre-owned, each one was opened, metered, and signed off by a working photographer before it was listed. That's the catalog. That's the whole pitch.
A note from the floor
You'll find three conditions here: New, straight from our authorized dealer stock at Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Leica, Panasonic, and Blackmagic; Certified Pre-Owned, every body opened on our bench and signed off against a 38-point checklist; and Smith Street Collection, founder-curated film and medium-format pieces vetted in person by Simon Gold.
The left rail is the same language we use on the shop floor — by sensor format, by body type, by condition, by price band. If you're hunting a particular flagship, the flagship bodies are 92% in-stock on the day they list; if you're weighing whether to go used, every pre-owned body arrives with a verified shutter count and a 90-day functional warranty, three times the industry standard.
Free on-site sensor cleaning and firmware updates have been included with every body we sell since 1994. Spend over $1,500 and we'll set up a 30-minute Zoom with a staff photographer before you commit. None of that is upsell — it's the floor we keep.
Browse the floor
Each row below is an editorial entry-point into a category. Pick the one your shoot is starting from.
Department 01
From the flagship Canons and Nikons to Sony Alpha, Fujifilm X and GFX, Leica M and Q, and the occasional Pentax or Olympus we still believe in. New from authorized dealer stock; certified pre-owned with shutter counts pulled on the bench.
Department 02
Blackmagic, Panasonic S-series, Canon C and R-series cinema bodies, Sony FX-line, and the cages, follow focuses, V-mounts, and on-board monitors to put them in a working rig. The kind of list our in-house DP builds his own projects from.
Department 03
Authorized-dealer stock of Sigma, Tamron, and the first-party lineups, plus a constantly refreshed pre-owned lens wall. AF calibration checked against our bench bodies; fungus, haze, and aperture-blade oil flagged in the listing, not hidden.
Department 04
Manfrotto and Sachtler sticks and heads, DJI and Zhiyun gimbals, SmallRig cages, Nanlite and Aputure lights, SanDisk and ProGrade cards, NP-F and LP-E6 batteries, calibrated G-Tech and OWC drives. Picked because we use them on our own jobs.
Simon's Picks
Each of these is a 1-of-1: a body we've hand-matched to a specific lens, card, and cage set, then put on the bench in the configuration we'd actually shoot. Curated by our in-house DP, eleven years in the industry.
Working photographer's pick
Sony A7 IV paired with the 24-70mm f2.8 GM II, a SmallRig cage, two 128GB CFexpress Type A cards, an extra NP-FZ100, and a Rode on-camera mic. Ready for an edit bay the day it arrives.
Indie filmmaker's pick
Blackmagic Pocket 6K G, Tilta cage with follow focus, SmallHD 702 monitor, V-mount power, and a Veydra 35mm T2.2 — a working narrative rig out of one box.
Portrait & wedding pick
Fujifilm X-T5 in silver, the 56mm f1.2 portrait prime, two NP-W235 batteries, a 256GB UHS-II SD card, and the leather strap. A complete one-body, one-prime setup for a working portrait shooter.
What you get when you buy from a working shop
The verifiable operational facts — no press-logo strips, no star-rating banner. The kind of thing a working photographer asks before they wire four thousand dollars to a stranger.
years on Smith Street
Founded 1978 by Simon Gold. The same storefront, still open six days a week.
verified customers
4.83 average across 9,400+ published reviews, written by people who actually bought gear.
used-body warranty
Three times the 30-day industry standard on every certified pre-owned body we list.
per used-body inspection
38-point checklist, signed off by a working photographer. Shutter count, sensor, AF — verified.
Founder's note
A used body arrives at the bench one of three ways: a customer trading up under our lifetime trade-in credit; a private seller we know; or a consignment from a working photographer who's moved on. It does not list the day it arrives.
It sits with one of our two factory-trained technicians — Canon CPS Gold and Nikon Authorized between them — for an average of 47 minutes across 38 checklist points: shutter count pulled, sensor inspected under glass, autofocus calibrated to a known body, every port and dial exercised, battery and charger health checked, firmware updated to current. If anything fails a single point, it goes back to the bench. We do not list it.
Once it passes, we photograph it on the same bench, write the listing in plain English, and ship it with a 90-day functional warranty — three times the industry standard — plus the free sensor cleaning and firmware update we've included with every body since 1994. That is the floor. The same floor my father kept.
— Rachel Gold-Mendez, second generation. 412 Smith Street, since 1978.
