That's what makes the PDML so valuable. Unless you have to be first in line, you'll find many opinions and examples here. Paul On Feb 22, 2007, at 4:04 PM, William Robb wrote:
> > > This is the conundrum of the modern photographer. > Back when people were willing to support their local camera store, > it was > easy. You decided what you wanted, you went in to buy it. > If they had to special order it, then there was a delay, but > ultimately, you > got to handle and try out the actual item you were going to purchase. > Now, no one wants to buy from a local shop, since they have the > temerity to > charge a premium price for the pleasure of serving their customers. > So, we are stuck with online reviews of questionable merit, and buy > products > based on the opinions of people who may or may not be > photographers, and who > may, or may not (mostly not from the web reviews I have seen), have > a clue > about how to run an equipment test. > And, we are increasingly being stuck with having to buy equipment > sight > unseen from faceless big box vendors who don't care if we are happy > with > what they are flogging or not, since there are a thousand other > suckers that > day trying to buy other pieces of sight unseen junk based on > reviews of > questionable merit. > > William Robb > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
