On 13 October 2010 11:22, P. J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/13/2010 11:12 AM, Miserere wrote: >> >> On 13 October 2010 10:53, Steven Desjardins<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Decide on a model as tell them "Buy this one". Then spend the time >>> teaching them how to use it. >> >> And make sure you get a commission from the local camera store for any >> sales of that camera to senior citizens :-) >> >> I don't envy your task, Walter, because you have to figure out what a >> senior citizen might want, and I can asure you it's NOT what YOU want. >> Here's a video that might help you: >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvu2QPQLlYA >> >> Cheers, >> >> >> --M. > > Most seniors want three things. > > Something easy to use, (say what you will about Kodak products, but Kodak > made a fetish of out ease of use, especially with the Instamatic camera > series and it stuck). > > Something inexpensive, (which is a conflict with ease of use, as most > inexpensive digital cameras are PITAs to use). > > Something that will give decent prints or images to e-mail. > > Now this describes 90% of the photographic market, not just seniors. It's > surprising how many digital cameras get sold, that fail to meet those three > criteria, (I'd wager 90% actually).
I agree with 90% of what you said. --M. -- \/\/o/\/\ --> http://WorldOfMiserere.com http://EnticingTheLight.com A Quest for Photographic Enlightenment -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
