On 4/17/05, Christian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I attended a baseball match last night. It was the Yankees of New York City > visiting the Orioles of Baltimore. Very exciting game and the Orioles > managed a come-from-behind victory over the visiting New York team with a > final score of New York 6, Baltimore 7. > > <pentax_content> > During the game there was a rolling advertising banner behind home plate > visible on TV during each pitch. One of the adds was for Pentax. It said > (and I am NOT making this up!) "PENTAX" in big bold red letters and below in > smaller print "Digital Cameras <spaces> Endoscopes" > </pentax_content> > > Granted Baltimore is the home of Johns Hopkins Medical Center, but still, it > was pretty funny. Great marketing stratedgy. > > Christian
You should be supporting your new team, the Washington Expos - er - I mean, Nationals. That is pretty funny about the endoscopes, though. I hear Olympus has cornered the market over the last number of years, so maybe this is Pentax's attempt to once again penetrate the hole market. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
