Marilee B. Meyer is an art historian who has lived in Cambridge for 20 years and frequented Ferranti-Dege for advice on cameras, equipment and photography theory.

Al Gowan, first administrator of the Cambridge Arts Council, said the shop will be missed. “This was my photo store,” said Gowan. “There was no other place where you could get everything done and a lot of good advice.”

"It's another big loss for the square," said Rod Kessler, 57, a customer since his freshman year at Harvard in 1967. "The Harvard Square I remember is now Davis Square, where there's bookstores, characters, vitality."

As the window grates clanked shut outside, inside, longtime customer Chris Ripman handed out glasses of champagne.

Charles Bandes of Somerville mourns another closed-up Harvard Square store: the Ferranti-Dege camera shop. On his Charley's Photography Blog…