Canon manufacturing - growing strong !

Canon manufacturing - growing strong !

"product repair technician, checks out refurbished camera lens for a customer at Canon Virginia Inc. in Newport News. Canon Virginia, one of the largest employers in Newport News"


http://www.dailypress.​com …5-20101115,0,109204.stor​y

Thanks for posting, good to see their health.

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An aside...(not trolling) just commenting on what I really see in a real picture in the story. Look at the picture, really look at it.

A guy testing out a camera with fine calibration equiptment...the ceiling! He's using the ceiling to check something, ...anything ...out?! All bare hands, even with a several $k lens. Lesson learned, send it in really busted or not at all because you're going to get it back with minumal actual expertise (paper diploma on guy's shelf). Refurb dependability??

How can I make this generalization? I can't. BUT there is a picture of what was really happening that day. Can't ignore that.

Photon Phil wrote in post #11288601
Thanks for posting, good to see their health.

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An aside...(not trolling) just commenting on what I really see in a real picture in the story. Look at the picture, really look at it.

A guy testing out a camera with fine calibration equiptment...the ceiling! He's using the ceiling to check something, ...anything ...out?! All bare hands, even with a several $k lens. Lesson learned, send it in really busted or not at all because you're going to get it back with minumal actual expertise (paper diploma on guy's shelf). Refurb dependability??

How can I make this generalization? I can't. BUT there is a picture of what was really happening that day. Can't ignore that.

Uh, dood...I see a guy holding a several $k lens in the foreground and some guy behind him with a cheap EF-S lens pointed at the ceiling. How do you know he's not just verifying AF motor function.

The real truth, though, might be that the publication's photographer came around and everyone is just doing "something" because he/she is there...I could show you tons of images taken where I work that might look like people working to you, but looked totally staged and ridiculous to me. This is why people need to relax when they see a press shot of anything. Everybody KNOWS there's a photographer there, he's not like a stealthy ninja or something. Sometimes people are told to "look busy" by the photographer just so the shot doesn't look lame and irrelevant to the piece.

If we saw the candid shot, you'd probably have 33% of the people on the phone handling something, 34% checking their FFL, 25% online, posting to POTN, and 8% actually handling some sort of photography equipment.

Agreed. BUT there's still his crummy paper diploma award thingy, that's not staged. That's at least funny.

Come to think of it, you've just rendered me pointless. Thanks.

So true. I was in school for architecture and the university brought in some photogs to get promotional pictures for pamphlets/whatnot. They came into our studio and what did they see? 30 people, some on the phone, some drafting on their tables, and most of us on our laptops. I think there may have been 1 person working on a model at the time.

The photog turned to us and sai "Do something 'architecty!' So we all found things to do that must have looked absolutely ridiculous to anyone who sees the studio on a regular basis.

AngryCorgi wrote in post #11307031
Uh, dood...I see a guy holding a several $k lens in the foreground and some guy behind him with a cheap EF-S lens pointed at the ceiling. How do you know he's not just verifying AF motor function.

The real truth, though, might be that the publication's photographer came around and everyone is just doing "something" because he/she is there...I could show you tons of images taken where I work that might look like people working to you, but looked totally staged and ridiculous to me. This is why people need to relax when they see a press shot of anything. Everybody KNOWS there's a photographer there, he's not like a stealthy ninja or something. Sometimes people are told to "look busy" by the photographer just so the shot doesn't look lame and irrelevant to the piece.

If we saw the candid shot, you'd probably have 33% of the people on the phone handling something, 34% checking their FFL, 25% online, posting to POTN, and 8% actually handling some sort of photography equipment.

I've been on the model end of several workplace shoots. Everyone of them was completely bogus. Must have looked good at the trade show though, they kept doing more. It's the way it goes.

I thought the guy holding the kit lens on a entry level camera was funny but it probably was staged.

What I found rather useless was the whole article and the lack of pictures.
Maybe I messed a link but they did not even show anything but this one guy and a lens.

If they want to talk about making a comeback they could SHOW it.
700,000 sq ft building?
I am sure there were plenty of wide angle lenses there they could have let the guy use to take a shot to show off the facility.

Good to know they are growing but kind of a pointless article since it is a planned slow growth.

Photon Phil wrote in post #11310150
Agreed. BUT there's still his crummy paper diploma award thingy, that's not staged. That's at least funny.

Err, have you never seen a certification certificate? We get them for passing lab safety tests every year, some people hang them up at their benches in the lab because should an inspection come our way they don't have to go looking for the thing. Maybe they shouldn't be certified at all, would that make you more comfortable since you won't have a paper to mock? Or would you only be satisfied if they had a Masters or PHD?

The real question is what kind of camera took that shot I hope it was a canon.

sigma pi wrote in post #11339766
The real question is what kind of camera took that shot I hope it was a canon.

yes, it was !

Whew!! I cant see on my work computer thanks

Photon Phil wrote in post #11310150
Agreed. BUT there's still his crummy paper diploma award thingy, that's not staged. That's at least funny.

You're making some big assumptions. It could be a certification from a training course, which is more likely what it is than a diploma.