In a message dated Tue, 19 Feb 2002 4:11:48 PM Eastern Standard Time, Nitin Garg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 03:44:23PM -0500, Aaron Reynolds wrote: > > On Tuesday, February 19, 2002, at 02:18 PM, Christian Skofteland wrote: > > > > > They show him sitting in a blind in Pakistan photographing > > > Snow Leopards witha Nikon F5. so far so good. His assistant drops a > > > roll of > > > film (to show how incompetent the locals are I guess, whatever.) and > > > when he > > > picks it up you can clearly see "MAX" in black on a yellow cartridge. > > > > I shouted "Oh...my...GOD!" in the theatre. Vanessa had to pat my arm to > > calm me down. > > > > Did you notice that everything else was perfect? His tripod was even > > weighted with sandbags. > > > > Seriously, though, did Kodak think that the average moviegoer would not > > get the Kodak-is-good-film connection if O'Donnell were shooting E200 or > > Supra or any one of their actual pro films? Instead, they just provide > > an (additional) unintentional guffaw for those knowledgeable about that > > kind of thing. > > They wouldn't get the kodak MAX is a good film connection. And most of > the viewers wont know what E200 film is. They may not know what E200 film is, but it's in a yellow box, which makes it look a lot like all the other yellow boxes on Wal*Mart's shelves (including the Ektachrome 200 in the very same store) and completely unlike all the green and blue boxes on in Wal*Mart's film section. - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
