[HUG ] Analogue melt down - or - Buyer's Regret.3.

Dear Friends,

         Some people buy the wrong things - either because they have been
sold down the river by unscrupulous weasels like myself, or because they
truly did not understand what it was they needed, and listened to the voice
in their head, and the voice was speaking gibberish....

        They buy cameras because their mate in the pub ( - inevitably
characterised as being a great photographer. No-one ever admits to being
advised by a drunken plumber. ) said it was a great camera, or they read 15
posts in an internet blog that touted it, or they just got a tax refund and
they are too stupid to bank it.

        They buy cameras because their competition buys cameras, or the TAFE
lecturer said to buy it, or their neighbour has one. ( Their neighbour also
has gastric reflux but they never come in asking for a pound of chili ...)
They buy cameras because it is a full moon and the tides are surging.

         Then they sober up. They realise that the instruction book on a
Nikon D 300 is written in a foreign language - English - and they have not
held a book since high school. It might as well be War and Peace for all
they know - I tell them it might be the best of times or the worst of
times.....

        They bring in the Nikocanopentasonyflexomatic HD 8 and want to trade
it in on something else. The deal is never pleasant to see - for a start,
the resale value of the gear is less than a similar weight in cigarette
butts and to add to that the next stage that the buyer wants to go to is
generally equally unsuitable. They want the Olympsinasigfug with the Live
View and the 25 X zoom lens.

        I have learned several things at this stage:

1.       Do not laugh.
2.       Do not cry.
3.       Do not show them a Vivitar 35mm autofocus camera loaded with 400
ASA colour negative film.

        Because if you laugh they will get angry, and if you cry they will
laugh, and if you sell them the Vivitar they will take perfectly acceptable
pictures. And that is not why they want a camera....

 Uncle Dick

PS: Shameless self-promotion - I am now writing a column in the Australian
Photo Trader magazine called Uncle Dick's View. I expect to be assassinated
for it, but if I can meet girls it will be worth it.


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