[LRflex] Re: Niagara Falls Pano NOW FROM A HELICOPTER! :-)
- From: Andy Wagner <yxandy2001@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:37:57 -0800 (PST)
No Steve
I didn't marry her. This lady was around 60+, Iwas around 18. She was looking
for something to occupy her time and photography was something she had an
interest in but never had the time to take up the hobby. Anyways she started
out with no knowledge of photography, did a massive amount of reading, spent
literally hours asking me questions and finally bought an SRT 101. I asked her
to bring back her first roll of film (KII) that she shot. I kid you not 20 out
of 20 were perfect shots and at 5 could have been contest winners. She had the
eye for it.
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Regards
YXAndy
--- On Tue, 11/17/09, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Steve Barbour <steve.barbour@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [LRflex] Re: Niagara Falls Pano NOW FROM A HELICOPTER! :-)
To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 12:54 AM
On Nov 16, 2009, at 8:39 PM, Andy Wagner wrote:
> Dr Ted
> As long as we are on humorous stories re photography allow me too share one
> that was brought back too my memory just recently.
> What brought the experience back was my purchase of Doug Herr's 80-200 zoom.
> Doug being the courtious and caring fellow informed me that there was a
> little rattle in the shipping box-not to be concerned it was merely the
> instruction booklet. Why would I need an instruction book?
> Anyways the reason dawned on me as to why--Many many many years ago my job
> while I was working through college was as a sales person in Target's camera
> department. This was when they sold Minolta SRT 10, Spotmatics and Yashika
> rangefinders along with some extra lenses zoom in particular. Now they were
> not to worried about photographic knowledge in thier hiring and my manager
> was one who needed an instruction book to load a 126 instamatic. Of course he
> was God's gift to the photo department never to be questioned or corrected.
> Well one day I walked in as he was attempting to sell a Vivitar 80-200 screw
> mount zoom lens to a customer- problem was he was trying to put it on the
> Yashika as an auxiliary lens. "Hey Andy how does this fit on here?" was his
> question to me. I looked at him and with a straight face informed him that he
> needed to get a hold of the buyer in Minneapolis and see if he can get a
> "step down zoom adapter ring". Which he did immediately. While he was gone I
> informed the customer that if he really wanted the type of flexibility a zoom
> afforded to stop back later and I would show her the options available.
> What really shocked me though was when the manager came back, he told me the
> buyer was looking in to ordering one. I just let it ride.
> By the way I did sell the lady an SRT and a zoom after about 10 trips in to
> see me.
did you also marry her?
Steve
>
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> Regards
> YXAndy
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