Price of a #11 flashbulb at flee market less than $1.00.
the look on your victims face... priceless.
At 09:23 PM 1/20/2003 -0500, you wrote:
You should ask and easier question, Mike. Like how many remember slide
projectors at all. You can have all kinds of questions like that, who knows
what a #11 flash bulb is? And, that leads to another question, has anybody
else ever screwed them into lamp sockets and waited around for some
unsuspecting soul to turn on the lights <reminiscent grin>.
Ciao,
Graywolf
http://pages.prodigy.net/graywolfphoto
----- Original Message -----
From: "George Sinos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 7:29 PM
Subject: RE: Mike Johnson's Sunday Message
>
> Henry Chu said: "Dear Mike, I presume that consumers are intelligent in
> choosing what they think the best film format for them...." <remainder
> snipped>
>
> Sorry Henry, but if my experience in retail is any indicator, a pretty big
> percentage of consumers don't have a clue as to what size film their
camera
> uses. Now take this with a grain of salt, because my camera shop
> experience stems from the late sixties and early seventies when I was in
> high school and college. Back in those golden years we had 120, 220, 620,
> 828, 126, 35mm, 110 and several sizes of Polaroid film packs on the shelf
> simultaneously. For a while we even had film for those weird disc
> cameras. There were a few other odd sizes that I could order from the
main
> warehouse.
>
> Anyway there were a pretty large percentage of the customers that didn't
> know what size film they needed. They would either bring in the box from
> the last roll or refer to a note. Many would bring in the camera. We'd
> take out the exposed film and reload it for them.
>
> I'm guessing there are still many folks out there in the same category. I
> may have already told this group the story about my cousin. A very
> intelligent woman in her early 40's. She (and the majority of my
extended
> family) only uses "disposable" cameras. She was lamenting that sometimes
> she would get negatives back and other times she would get the film wound
> back in the little "cannister".
>
> She didn't know there were two different film formats, and had never
> noticed any difference in the pictures. Now she remembers to make sure
the
> package doesn't say APS or Advantix.
>
> Well, one data point doesn't make a trend, but I think there are more
> people like my cousin than like the subscribers to PDML.
>
> And a bonus question for you other old timers... How many remember the
> Bell & Howell Slide Cube Projectors?
>
> See you later, gs
>
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>
>
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. --Groucho Marx
