Wednesday, June 25, 2008

There are smurfs in my camera shop

Being a camera snob ain't easy. For example, I bought a circular polarizer at Glazer's last weekend. I bought the cheap one but wasn't satisfied with it when I got home, so I'll be trading it in for the expensive B+W version. It costs $100 more but I know I won't think twice about it. In photography, confidence in your gear comes above all.

As long as I'm planning a trip to the camera store, I thought I would check their web site for some other accessories I'm interested in buying, only to discover:

A) They don't have an item I want, and
B) The store is infested by smurfs (click the image for a larger view).


You'd think that as a camera store they could come up with better example products in the helpful text. Maybe "lens and filter", or "tripod and head". I'm going to walk in there this week and ask them for a smurf, just to prove the point. (Yes, I realize that this was probably the result of a web designer who likes smurfs but doesn't know cameras. Appriopriate feedback to the user is important, though in the context of web design I'll leave this in the hands of my lovely and talented wife to discourse.)

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