[LargeFormat] Cooke Lenses - Suggestions for Future Models?

[Jim Brick]

Highly unlikely today, with the stock market in the toilet and corporate 
CEO's being rounded-up into the OK corral for fraud.

Maybe it should be renamed the "Not OK Corral."

:)

Jim


At 08:50 AM 7/18/2002 -0600, Marco Milazzo wrote:
>There seems to be some question of whether there's much of a market for a
>$3,500 portrait lens, but I've worked in places -- and maybe you have,
>too -- where, if you told the Boss, that a $3,500 lens would make the Board
>of Directors look good, and disguise the CEO's liver spots, the check would
>be cut the next day -- but only if it was too late THAT day.
>
>I've also worked in places where the Boss announced, "We have $20,000 left
>in the budget.  Spend it by 5 PM.  I don't care what you get -- just spend
>it or we'll lose it."
>
>(And if you had to be a real photographer to buy expensive equipment, a lot
>of doctors would have to hand in their Leicas).
>
>
>Marco