Cindy <cindyduet@comcast.net> dixit:

>jwb@csse.monash.edu.au wrote:
>> One of my nephews is exploring a business venture importing Japanese
>> musical instruments (mainly guitars) into Australia. He wants some
>> help getting detailed photographs. In his words:
>>
>> "I am looking for someone in Japan who has a little knowledge of musical
>> instruments (enough to navigate my basic instructions re model numbers etc),
>> and is nifty with a digital SLR camera, to go to one or more stores and take
>> some photos for me. As my Japanese is non-existent, some English would be
>> helpful. I would pay well for someone to do this for me, so I thought maybe
>> a student may be interested. Essentially, there are about 50 instruments,
>> and each one would need a dozen photos, i.e. front, back, neck, headstock,
>> etc. Ishibashi have no problem with someone making arrangements to do this.
>> Unfortunately my contact there works on their webstore and not in any of the
>> store locations."

>Tell your nephew to quit using his uncle and get his ass in Japan
>himself and do the work by himself.

Importing donkeys into a Japan is a bit difficult, and not likely to
be much of a help.

As he said, "I would pay well" and a smart business person is the one
who knows when to pay.

In his email to me he also added: 

>> "I am trying to avoid hauling myself over there with a
>> Nikon and a phrase book. Although I would love to go, it would be a bit of a
>> chore considering my other work commitment here, and I would most likely get
>> more than a little lost!"

Fair enough comment. Any suggestions from non-Texans?

-- 
Jim Breen        http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/
Clayton School of Information Technology,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia 
ジム・ブリーン@モナシュ大学