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by Dug on Thu Feb 02, 2006 12:00 am
OK a bedtime tale boys and girls believe it or not as you please.
It is scary so be warned.
I work .... turn up ... at a camera shop a few days a week.
SO today I was minding my own business when a young woman approached me with a quizzical look and asked if we had any SLR cameras.
I replied in the affirmative and asked "Film or Digital?"
The conversation proceeded along the normal lines untill she mentioned she had been sent from a nearby camera retailer A large American franchise recently sold yet again and whose Yellow and Red logo shall remain nameless.
She had entered said Red and Yellow camera shop and asked the same question IE:
"Do you have any SLR cameras?"
and had received the reply........
"No, we don't stock SLR brand cameras"

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by Michael on Thu Feb 02, 2006 12:12 am
LOL
Photo continental in brisbane I spoke to a younger fella there younger then most still oder then me though and he really had no idea what he was doing.
I was asking about a few lenses and thier cash price, I was amazed he could work there and really have no idea.
Are we there yet?
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by Zeeke on Thu Feb 02, 2006 12:55 am
i reckon if i worked in a camera shop.. id be the stupid going "Camera??? What Camera???" Looks like you always get the good ones Dug!!
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by Nnnnsic on Thu Feb 02, 2006 1:39 am
What's the company?
Either McDonalds (who shouldn't sell cameras or "food" for that matter) or Kodak (which aren't really a camera shop) are all I can work out.
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by tasadam on Thu Feb 02, 2006 11:11 am
Nnnnsic wrote:McDonalds (who shouldn't sell cameras or "food" for that matter).
Mc Donalds don't sell foor, er, sorry, didn't see the "quotes".
It would be fun to ask the person which store and what the person looked like, then go there and give it a go, could be fun. Maybe then ask for the manager and see if they know
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by Dug on Thu Feb 02, 2006 7:00 pm
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by gstark on Thu Feb 02, 2006 7:09 pm
Dug wrote:Hint the name starts with a K and ends with a K that is all I am saying they do have a franchised camera shop thing.
No Kodak store has sold cameras in living memory. Sorry.
They sell film, they attempt to make prints ... they take up valuable floor space that might be otherwise occupied by something useful, like, say, a library card exchange repository.
But no, selling cameras hasn't been done in living memory.
g. Gary Stark Nikon, Canon, Bronica .... stuff The people who want English to be the official language of the United States are uncomfortable with their leaders being fluent in it - US Pres. Bartlet
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by Dug on Thu Feb 02, 2006 8:57 pm
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by elffinarts on Thu Feb 02, 2006 9:18 pm
Dug wrote:Ok they don't actually "Sell" cameras LOL not at those prices anyway
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by oli on Thu Feb 02, 2006 9:42 pm
gstark wrote:No Kodak store has sold cameras in living memory. Sorry.
Kodak stores in Adelaide sell cameras. Then again... this is Adelaide.
Photo gallery online <a href="http://photoden.net/oliver">here</a> and some more on deviantArt <a href="http://oliau.deviantart.com">here</a>.
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by Nnnnsic on Thu Feb 02, 2006 9:46 pm
Kodak stores sell cameras.
Bad PHD's.
But they're cameras.
Well, in a manner of speaking, anyway.
My 1920 Kodak works as a camera better than a current Kodak image-recording-device.
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by jethro on Thu Feb 02, 2006 10:03 pm
Kodak=joke when it comes to the photographic industry today!
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shoot it real.
look! and see. Shoot and feel
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by Nnnnsic on Fri Feb 03, 2006 12:14 am
jethro wrote:Kodak=joke when it comes to the photographic industry today! Jethro
Indeed, but I do like some of their film.
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by Grev on Fri Feb 03, 2006 12:51 am
Kodaks... I still have my CX7300 digital camera, which is a 3.1Mp non-zoomable thing that is more of a disposable camera. It works ok I guess but as mentioned, Kodak-now doesn't equal to Kodak-before.
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by Zeeke on Fri Feb 03, 2006 1:10 am
every kodak i owned... i broke in 3 to 6 months.. they couldnt handle the heat.... D70 is the hardest camera ive had.. its going strong!! i love it.. Kodak... burn baby burn..
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