Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Adam, At most major events Canon and Nikon are there with CPS and NPS providing free camera check-ups and cleaning to the working pros. They also have equipment you can borrow, and they give away tons of badged merchandise. I have several bright red fanny packs with CANON on them, as well as several black bags with gold NIKON on them. They have given out huge stickers that some guys stick on their lens hoods, which I bet is what you saw. Canon and Nikon do this knowing the guys will use the stuff, it is nice stuff and FREE. Canon and Nikon more than get their money back from the free advertising this gives them. Back in 1992 when I was covering the Masters I could not find CPS anywhere, I saw NPS, but no CPS. I asked where Canon was and I was told that they were banned from the Masters, seems a few years before they had given out fanny bags, they were the standard red with huge white CANON on them. Some guys wore them at the Masters, the MASTERS DOES NOT ALLOW that, at ALL! They kicked Canon off the grounds and yanked their creds. Now I do not know if this is the truth, but it is what was told to me back then. I did end up shooting with a Nikon N90 and 400 3.5 after my Canon 400 2.8 got water damage there...Nikon did not want to give me a lens till I showed my NPS card and that I had three Nikon bodies and only the one Canon body. LOL -- Harrison McClary Harrison McClary Photography harrison@mcclary.net http://www.mcclary.net ImageStockSouth - Stock Photography http://www.imagestocksouth.com Tobacco Road: Personal Blog: http://www.mcclary.net/blog