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Subject: Re: [OM] Ritz going under
From: Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 07:59:11 +1100
To be fair, she probably gave them the idea that it was an old Canon  
FD manual rther than an EOS - I'm sure they would rather have sold  
her a Canon SLR kit than a P&S!
"What kind of Canon is it? How old."
"Oh I can't remember - er, it's really old. Had it forever...."
That sort of thing.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx



On 24/03/2009, at 11:45 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:

> Unfortunately, many folks don't know when they're getting bad service.
> I ran into a woman the other day who spotted my Canon digital and
> commented that she had wanted to get a Canon digital camera so that  
> she
> could use the zoom lens she already had from her old Canon film  
> camera.
>   But she went to the camera store here (probably Ritz as that's about
> all that's left) and was told that her old Canon lens wouldn't work  
> on a
> newer Canon digital camera.  I asked her what model she had so she
> fetched it from the house and it turned out to be an EOS 650 with a
> 70-210 zoom.  I told her that it most certainly would work and  
> proved it
> to her by using her lens on my camera to take a shot and then put my
> Tamron 24-135 on her camera for her to take a shot.  She was astounded
> and very unhappy with the shop which had sold her a Fuji super zoom  
> P&S
> type camera.

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