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Paul M. Provencher
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From: Isaac Crawford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 12:37 PM
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Subject: Re: Nasty Kodak rumor, or the sloppy truth: the dumbing down of
NorthAmerica??
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> My Gawd! Is it tr
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From: "Shel Belinkoff"
> Hi Issac ...
>
> Boy, do i disagree with you.
>
> > To me, Kodak's decision makes perfect sense. Keep in mind
that 95% of
> > people don't know about film speed, and don't care.
>
> Where/how did you arrive at that figure? Was a survey made
William Robb wrote:
> I don't see new packaging as a way to end run around
> customer service. I suspect that there will still be a
> significant portion of the population that will need assurance
> that the product is right for their situation.
Customer: I need some film.
Salesperson: What
>
> Hi Issac ...
>
> Boy, do i disagree with you.
>
> > To me, Kodak's decision makes perfect sense. Keep in mind that 95% of
> > people don't know about film speed, and don't care.
>
> Where/how did you arrive at that figure? Was a survey made of
> this? Had you said many, most, a great per
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From: "Shel Belinkoff"
> How can subjective descriptions replace some knowledge about
film
> speed. However, if the cameras are all dumbed down to meet
the
> lowered and more simplistic descriptions of appropriate film,
and
> the sales people don't know squat, and
On Wed, 9 May 2001, William Robb wrote:
> You can lead em to the river, but you can't make them drink. If
> your lucky, they will fall in and drown though.
> William Robb
*L* That's a keeper, Bill. Thanks for the story. :)
chris
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So, Shel, you're in the other 5%... ;-)
Martin
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From: Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 2:04 PM
Subject: Re: Nasty Kodak rumor, or the sloppy truth: the dumbing down of NorthAme
ROTFLMAO!!!
William Robb wrote:
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I used to work in a family owned (not mine unfortunately) now-defunct camera
store in Providence, RI (United Camera - ever hear of it?).
A guy comes in to the store. He has a 700- or 800-series Polaroid camera.
He is complaining of a problem with the pictures. There were big giant
shadows ove
"William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You must moonlight as a Ritz
Camera
salesperson.
I had the opposite problem when buying film recently at Ritz: a salesman
second-guessing my informed choice:
Me: "Do you have any of the new Fujicolor 1600, the version that uses the
fourh color layer?
S
> Opened the film compartment, removed the film pack, and found the new
> batteries he installed to fix the flash problem - D-cells laid loosely in the space
>between the lens and film pack... Hmmm... That might account for the shadows...
>
Reminds me of the story about someone complaining to a
"Provencher, Paul M." wrote:
> It's too bad you feel that way - I always found it worthwhile to help people
> understand what they were doing and what their options were. But don't
> count on having less explaining to do...
In my days of consumer-oriented photographic retail, my experience
ge
Hi,
Dorothy Parker was once challenged to think of a memorable sentence
involving the word 'horticulture'. She came up with "you can lead a
horticulture but you can't make her think" :o)
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Bob
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"In my vocabulary 'art' is a dirty word" - Helmut Newton
Wednesday, M
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