P3D Top 10 a few Comments

[markaren@xxxxxxxxx (Karen Obusek)]

I managed a Ritz Camera store from 1984-88. And returned to the industry
this year. Back then the average customer knew alittle about photogaphy.
If they took bad pictures, the norm was to ask " What am I doing wrong?"
Or "What did I set wrong on the camera?" Today things are much worse due
to the "dumbing down" of most products and overall moral decay of
customers. ( Yeah brother....I'll preach....that's right! :-)) Today the
response is most likely to be..." My pictures are ruined!! My last roll
was fine!!! You sold me a defective camera!! Now your telling me I have
to watch the backlighting!! This piece of s%^&t is supposed to be
automatic and now you are telling me I have to set this and that....I
told your flunkie over there I wanted a camera that would take a
professional picture and this is what I get??"
My canned response? You need to do 2 things...read the manual and read a
good book ( or take a class) teaching the basics of photography! Yes
folks....it's that bad now! I'm juggling between 2 downtown stores, and
selling commercial services. The commercial customers are as ignorant as
the retail customers. The saddest thing I've encountered so far are is
the incorrect information the Art Institute students have learned from
their instructors! I tutor 1 or 2 of these kids on the side.......now
that's sad.      Mark Dottle