I forgot to mention that, although she didn't know the model number (or
maybe even that it had one), she knew for certain that her camera was a
"Canon EOS" as that's exactly how she first described it to me. She had
no idea what that meant but the clerk should have.
Chuck Norcutt
Andrew Fildes wrote:
> 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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