Hi, Tom, My bet is that the vast majority of Rebel users have no idea that all those big white lenses on the sidelines of NFL football games are C**** lenses. They probably bought their Rebels because Andre Agassi's mug is on the tube, trying to tell us that he uses one (yeah, right!). That's ~real~ marketing! <g>
And, of hundreds of thousands of Rebels that are sold, do you really think that many are bought because some neophyte was chatting with a member of CDML (if such a thing exists), who enthusiastically told him to buy one? I have my doubts. Nah, TV ads, magazine ads, promotional deals in the local paper selling the ubiquitous starter kit with a 28-70 (or whatever) plus strap and camera bag for $200 - that's what does it, imho. But, as always, I could be wrong. cheers, frank T Rittenhouse wrote: > But the people on this is are not a couple hundred users, they are a couple > of hundred flag wavers. If word of mouth is worth anything, they would be > trying to please these people. Canon & Nikon have thousands of flag wavers, > simply because they do try to please that segment of their market. The Rebel > is the best selling SLR in the world because of all the white lenses that > are seen at sporting events. Canon does not sell a heck of a lot of white > lenses, but giving them away sells a heck of a lot of Rebels cameras. That > is called marketing. > -- "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer
