Hi Redesford,
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Originally Posted by redesford
Could you dig up this old ad if you get a chance Les? I vaguely remember it by your description, but It would be great to see it in all it's glory.
Actually, those ads are quite okay to me. She's standing next to a telescope, that's it I guess. But a leggy blonde in a short dress, what's that acheiving, reaaalllly?? |
The pic I'm talking about (and the one you're wanting -- I think) is on this page:
http://www.company7.com/astrophy/ref...s/155f7-4.html
But here it's in colour. In the magazines it was in B&W -- I'm pretty certain. I said earlier she was wearing glasses but it seems like memory has failed me there.
Still,
in your mind's-eye, put a pair of big glasses on her and tell me she doesn't look like a tall "Tootsie" ?
But, as I said, who is this person?
The models in the Celestron ads left no doubt as to why they were there but ... Is she the receptionist at Astro-Physics? The owner? The owner's wife? A well-heeled serious telescope owner just about to head-out to the local Presbyterian service on a Sunday morning? How does she add to the ad? What does her dress say on the subject of "Why I should buy this telescope".
I
haven't laid in bed for hours-on-end considering this conundrum (I promise -- really) but it does have me more than a little ... stumped.
You ask "What's the leggy blonde achieving, reaaally?" Do I reaaally need to spell this out for you?
But, it did tend to insult the readership a bit. Were we expected to believe the young models in these Celestron ads had actually looked at, let alone
looked through the telescopes they posed beside? But, they weren't uninteresting to look at -- and that's why they were there. You looked at the girl and you couldn't help but see the 'scope beside her.
Having said that, what **
really cheezes me off ** (and most amatuers fell the same way) are telescope ads boasting "amazing power -- x800 times magnification ... 4x Barlow lens to make the image even clearer. Frankly, it would be less immoral and more honest if they had pics of naked women (or men as the case may be) adorning the ads, and the pics on the box.
Here's a prediction: I'm waiting for the next generation of depatment-store 'scope ad's and I reckon the emphasis will shift from the "over the top huuuuuuuge magnification come-on", to the "massive 50,000 object database ... you can see the entire Unverse" in the go-to alt-az drive on the ubiquitous 50 and 60mm refractors of a few years time -- if not
now. Databases on chips are even cheaper to include that a x4 barlow lens ... Can't wait for the 'massive database' wars -- 30, 40, 50, 90,000 object libraries ...
Going to bed now to (not) re-consider that conundrum I mentioned ... (promise!)
Best,
Les D