Quoting Igor Roshchin <[email protected]>:
I would say that the younger generation is getting used to shop online more
and more. Even NYSE operations are becoming more and more electronic,
and the physical presence will soon disappear from NYSE.
I understand the preference of many PDMLers to play with the toys
locally, but I suspect the importance of the gadgets to be present
at the local store (especially if there aren't any available) maybe
a bit overrated.
Not just the younger generation.
I bought the K-5 and Q both online without ever touching either
beforehand. Of course, I knew what I was getting from the various
experiences posted here and on other sites.
I also just bought a new tripod online, although in that case I did
look at a few tripods in camera stores before selecting the one I
wanted. This is one case where I think it's necessary to see the
products in 'real', rather than 'virtual', life.
Cheers
Brian
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Brian Walters
Western Sydney Australia
http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/
When I bought my first Pentax (ZX-5n) back in 1997,
I lived in Urbana, Illinois.
After spending 1-2 hours in the only local photo camera store, trying
N70 and N90, I decided that I couldn't afford N90, but ergonomics of N70
was bad for me. So, I purchased Pentax ZX5n after reading about its
manual knob-and-buttons- controls. I bought it from either Adorama or
B&H, - unseen, as Pentax was not available locally.
(Two years ago I wrote about my relations with Pentax in this message to
PDML:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg528435.html )
Livining again in a small large-college town, I don't have access to
any reasonable brick-and-mortar camera store (I don't count the
recently disappeared Ritz camera or the still-present BestBuy as such).
I bought K-7, and just last month K-5 IIs also unseen.
But when I was buying *istDS, I lived in San Diego, and I don't think I
went to a local store to see it before I bought it. Maybe I did, - but
it was not a decisive factor.
More over, while living in NYC, I've never made it to B&H (although I
was frequently visiting Adorama that was closer, and where I was using
the photolab for printing photos.
So, are the physical stores helpful? Yes, - when I needed to figure out
which of 2-3 photo bags that I was looking at was batter for me, I
did that choice at the stores.
But living in the town that has relatively few reasonable stores of any
kind, - I am so much used to get everything online (even diapers are
bought from Amazon, - via a scheduled monthly delivery), that it makes the
life much easier in many aspects.
(Except that I am behind on breaking down and recycling shipping boxes.)
Igor
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