AS to the original query posed by mike wilson: there are people who are na�ve and ignorant of cameras everywhere, owning or looking at all different brands of cameras. I don't think it's fair to cast aspersions on people looking at Canon equipment specifically ... That smacks of an unwarranted prejudice.
A nice story:
Went out for a walk in the beautiful, soft light of this overcast Sunday morning, about 6:45am. It's a fifteen minute walk to the nearest local Starbux coffee house. When I arrived at the coffee house and placed my order, I casually snapped a picture or two of the baristo. He looked up and asked about the camera ... turns out he has a Pentax ME Super and a few lenses, was very excited to hear that a relatively affordable DSLR body was available so he could use his favorite old lenses with a digital camera. It was nice to run into someone casually and find that they were both knowledgeable and interested.
I decided to work with two lenses ... fitted the A24/2.8 for the walk there, fitted the A50/1.4 for the walk back. Got a lot of good exposures to work with. This is the first I've rendered:
http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/PAW5/19.htm
Godfrey
On May 15, 2005, at 9:12 AM, David Oswald wrote:
Well, I handed my *ist-Ds off to a woman the other day to take a picture of my wife and I. I'm always uncomfortable doing this, but in this case it worked out fine, after we coached her on the same issue. She was trying to look at its display screen instead of through the viewfinder.
It seems to me this trend toward view screen shooting (as opposed to looking through a viewfinder) must in some way affect the outcome of the shot. Just as top-view cameras encourage shooting from waist height, view-screen shots probably take on a characteristic of their own too, though probably less noticable.
mike wilson wrote:So I'm in Jessops looking at their list of film scanners and other bits and bobs and there's a person buying a Canon 20D at the counter. The salesperson goes through all the spiel, puts a lens on, powers it up and hands it over.
The person holds it at arm's length, points it at a companion, looks at the LCD at the back and says "This one's nacked" (= broken)
Is it just Canon buyers? 8-)))
mike
