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**ASAAR**

On 6 May 2007 19:21:14 -0700, wrote:

In order to avoid calling it an S5300. The next camera in this
line may be named S800 and S5800. I assume that you're familiar
with the naming convention used for earlier cameras in this line and
the greater confusion that those names may have caused.

Sorry, u missed my point.Being the SAME name for the same camera,
regardless where its sold.

Sorry, but you didn't make an clear and obvious point. You did
see that I said "I assume that you're familiar with the naming
convention used for earlier cameras in this line . . .", where
nothing like "S700" was used. Whether you do or don't know, the
names used for the same Fuji cameras, depending on region, are
S5100/S5500 and S5200/S5600. Notice that S500 and S600 weren't
used. As to why, It's hard to say since many manufacturers do it,
including Canon, Nikon and Sony, among others, and this name
changing isn't used just for cameras. Sometimes it might be to use
a word that may appeal more to people in one region than another,
such as Canon's use of "Digital Rebel" for the USA. In the case of
the Fuji, it's not that, since the difference between S5200 and
S5600 would hardly matter much in terms of its appeal to buyers. In
this case it might be for Nikon's reason, which is to make it easier
to identify where the camera might have been "legitimately" sold. I
don't know if Fuji restricts warranty coverage as unreasonably as
Nikon does, in attempting to deny coverage to gray market cameras.

Has Nth.America a problem is saying "S5700" so they made it shorter
to "S700"?

Obviously not, as S5200 wouldn't be any harder to say than S5600.
I did give a possible reason why S700 was used instead of S5300. Do
try to pay more attention. Focus. Focus.

Which leads us to
another interesting point/question. While this isn't your first
message to appear using the name "Michael.Pasturi", it's the first
I've seen to have been signed "Kinga 202". Did you slip up, or were
you unduly influenced by Fuji into using multiple confusing nyms.

But then again, i remember my first SLR/35mm was a Minolta 700, called
a "Dynax'? or similar in N/America

Maybe it's just that Minolta (and other manufacturers) leave
product naming to local marketing "experts", and in the USA they
tend to value (or overvalue) the influence of name associations with
sales. "x" is often used for various reasons. "Dyna" might bring
"Dynamic" to mind. You'll never see a serious camera named "Sleepy"
or "Woofer 180". g

Cheers

Not Kinga 202
Not Michael Pasturi