Yesterday evening said Swisswife: "Sweeheart, you must bring me to the city tommorrow morning. I want to buy the Sony Alpha 350 SLR-camera to get it with me on the trip to Chicago." Could you all imagine MY inner smile?? But then it comes:
"But if you want to use it too, here are the rules:
1. No dirty or greasy fingers/hands while you use it to take pictures from your guns.
2. Use it carefully. I hate how our little Olympus SW 770 looks now. All the scratches, and rubbed-off surface etc..
(Remarks from Swissman: It functions still perfectly and the lenses and display are clean and clear. This little Olympus
is the toughest camera i've ever used, but it got its natural limits with the small built in zoom-lens)
3. The Sony 350 is MY camera not ours.
4. I want a perfect look at MY camera for a long time."
I saw the rules written in burning letters at our livingromm-wall. But what makes me really nervous is, that she not said a worth about how I will get her permission.
Anyway, I'm not sure who's of us was more excited about her decission.
We went to the city this morning and stepped into the warehouse. I asked one of the guys there that we want to check our AF-APO-Minolta-lenses with the Sony for focus-speed, etc. That girl looked at us and said: "We're not allowed to load the battery of the cameras." I asked her if she really believes that my wife will put US$ 700.-- on the desk for a camera and has no right to check it out before. She talked with her boss, a real weasle, and he was not ready to change the mind. 5 seconds later missed Mr. Weasle a customer.
We went to another shop, where the seller let us check out the camera on the street in front of his shop. All was right.
So she want to buy it. He goes for a packed one and comes back: "Sorry we got right now only the one we had in the display, would you agree to take this one?".......OK, he never met Swisswife before, so it is not really his fault, but in fact it's not difficult to recognize that Swisswife is.....a women. To offer a women a new, but by many hands touched thing, that costs US$ 700.-- is a bad idea. And he felt it in a really quick half of a second and does a life-saving 180 degrees move...."or you can pick up a new ordered one next thursday." The clouds and the stormy weather in the shop disappered in the same speed they comes up and the soul- and heartwarming smile of Swisswife was back. She picks her vallet and pays the camera and the memory-chip.
So all in all was it worth to start the Chicago-thing.
Very, very pleased
Swissman
"But if you want to use it too, here are the rules:
1. No dirty or greasy fingers/hands while you use it to take pictures from your guns.
2. Use it carefully. I hate how our little Olympus SW 770 looks now. All the scratches, and rubbed-off surface etc..
(Remarks from Swissman: It functions still perfectly and the lenses and display are clean and clear. This little Olympus
is the toughest camera i've ever used, but it got its natural limits with the small built in zoom-lens)
3. The Sony 350 is MY camera not ours.
4. I want a perfect look at MY camera for a long time."
I saw the rules written in burning letters at our livingromm-wall. But what makes me really nervous is, that she not said a worth about how I will get her permission.
We went to the city this morning and stepped into the warehouse. I asked one of the guys there that we want to check our AF-APO-Minolta-lenses with the Sony for focus-speed, etc. That girl looked at us and said: "We're not allowed to load the battery of the cameras." I asked her if she really believes that my wife will put US$ 700.-- on the desk for a camera and has no right to check it out before. She talked with her boss, a real weasle, and he was not ready to change the mind. 5 seconds later missed Mr. Weasle a customer.
We went to another shop, where the seller let us check out the camera on the street in front of his shop. All was right.
So she want to buy it. He goes for a packed one and comes back: "Sorry we got right now only the one we had in the display, would you agree to take this one?".......OK, he never met Swisswife before, so it is not really his fault, but in fact it's not difficult to recognize that Swisswife is.....a women. To offer a women a new, but by many hands touched thing, that costs US$ 700.-- is a bad idea. And he felt it in a really quick half of a second and does a life-saving 180 degrees move...."or you can pick up a new ordered one next thursday." The clouds and the stormy weather in the shop disappered in the same speed they comes up and the soul- and heartwarming smile of Swisswife was back. She picks her vallet and pays the camera and the memory-chip.
So all in all was it worth to start the Chicago-thing.
Very, very pleased
Swissman
