On 6 Oct 2004 at 17:34, Bill Gillooly wrote:
> I think you guys are severely discounting the real difficulty of getting
> a page layout to press and then the printed documents to a trade-show.
> You might like to think it just takes a couple of days, but it more
> likely takes weeks. Who knows where Canon prints their materials. If
> they are printed in Japan, they'd have to be shipped to Germany.
> Printed matter is HEAVY and therefore expensive to ship fast. Printing
> in Europe is more expensive than printing in Asia.
You'd be amazed about the infrastructure surrounding the Cologne
Exhibit halls, far into the region....it takes no more than a flip of
the finger to have stuff like that done within a few hours....even
the complex itself is *massive* (it includes railroads, highway cross-
overs and even a port).
While biking early the evening towards Aqualand, a famous swim/sauna
center in Cologne, I got lost on one of the many industrial sites
(and promptly getting a flat tire, only 100m past the point of error;
but those instant foam tire-inflaters work wonders, thankfully (with
a gas-station nearby selling such stuff, after walking around the 1km
square block....:)), and I noticed more than one 'Messebau-Firma'
(boot-stand constructor) working late hours (*during* the Kina, mind
you).
Heck, even at the press-center one could print such PDF's freely in
large quantities (HP-sponsorship).
> It is possible that some of the spec's were not solid until a very late
> date, forcing them to delay printing the glossy brochure.
That's no different than when the 1n was introduced....I knew more
than the Canon crew back then, chief pro-camera Europe included (and
the Japanese never tell them much, other than in print).
> I will agree, though, that is is a major faux pas not to have the glossy
> brochure for your flagship product ready for the industry's largest
> trade-show.
Well, on the other hand they won't sell many 1Ds-MkII's to the
typical consumer-visitor on the Kina anyway (moi included, I'll wait
until they become cheap enough second-hand, preferably on the same
level I bought my DCS3, at the price of an analog 1n (which should be
the actual value in mechanical terms, IMNSHO....;))
(*but*: by that time there is no chance of getting brochures anymore
(though it will probably never get so bad as with the first series
DCS1/3/5, for which even hardly *any* info can be found online
anymore)
> I'd recommend stopping back at the Canon booth if you can. The
> brochures might come in during the show. I'd also recommend stopping by
> the booth in the morning to avoid having them run-out during the day.
I don't like to beg for the best documentation, unless it reveals
itself in a conversation....even when I had a press-card this time.
(though that did prevent the hand-out crew of [1] asking for a
donation for the good cause it seems....;))
Btw, no decent lens-brochure either, only a thick Canon cover-all
book [1] (and a lens-update addition that even still contained the
50/1.4 USM and 100/2.8 USM....almost seemed as if they wanted to get
rid of old documentation stock.
Oh well, I never like the large boots anyway, the larger, the more
flashy, and the more show & entertainment, the less actual
info....Kodak being the worst (their analog-film counters looked like
museum-vitrines....:((
The most fun & exciting stuff is always found in the smallest boots,
with first-time-exposing manufacturers....:))
--
Bye,
Willem-Jan Markerink
The desire to understand
is sometimes far less intelligent than
the inability to understand
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