On Tue, 20 May 2003 18:54:20 -0500, "Gary's Newsgroups" <alagk@yahoo.com> wrote:

>To all who may be making decisions about which camera to buy here is some

>reading for you. What follows is a note from me to Nikon regarding my

>decisions for making a purchse.

[long post about Canon's superior "customer

interface" deleted...]

Canon has ALWAYS had better marketing than Nikon

(just as, in the video world, Canon has always

had better marketing than Sony...), but nothing

in your post was about the relative *real relative

quality* of the products involved, which for some

of us is FAR more basic than relative ad-hype

degree, frequency of appearance of ads, quality

of the advertising (which includes the popular

magazine "reviews"...;-), or even of the quality

of customer relations (which is also a part of

marketing). I buy hardware. Sometimes Canon

offers a better product for a particular use,

sometimes Nikon (or Sony) does - but I decide

on the basis of function, not corporate or

product-line "image"...;-) (BTW, there's more I've

found about people's susceptibility to marketing

that predicts surprisingly reliably what computer

brand an avid Canon owner is likely to own, etc.,

but this is the "stuff" of flame-wars and

market-research, so......;-)