Bruce wrote: > The vast majority of working pros in this country are not "names" and > buy there equipment like everyone else. Very often they don't go the > cheapest places either, because they want service and personal > attention. That's why, in NYC, Ken Hanson is still so popular with pros > even though B&H is a 15 minute walk away.
Perhaps this is some peculiarity of North America due to very low prices of the New York mail order houses. In the rest of the world, the camera distributors deal with professional photographers business directly; not many pros if any, buy the cameras in a camera store. This is basically what pro marketing is about. Pro prices are anything from 30% rebate to free.... P�l
