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From: "Shel Belinkoff"
Subject: Re: PUG (No longer Re: *istD2)
Then should we stop discussing Canon, Sony, Nikon, and other cameras?
What
about Sigma, Tokina, Tamron, and other lenses?
This is the PDML, not the PUG.
I agreed with John because the door for using off-brand equipment had
already been opened. If a Ricoh could be used with a Pentax lens, and a
Pentax with a Sigma lens, then why not a Ricoh with a Sigma lens?
At some point we will also have to come up with a new name.
I propose
"Use any bloody camera or lens you want (formerly the Pentax Users Gallery)"
We coule even have a motto.
I suggest "Just Another Dime a Dozen Internet gallery"
When the change was made to allow other cameras or lenses to be used for
the PUG, I was a bit disappointed. But I was also relatively new to the
list. My preference is to see the PUG as an all Pentax venue, but since
that concept's already been well diluted, I see no reason not to allow any
gear in. IOW, all Pentax or completely open. The PAW and PESO system
does
allow for any equipment, so it's not that anyone would suffer a more
restrictive PUG ... or would they?
I don't think the PUG concept is "well diluted". I am sure that 3/4 or more
of the pictures are shot with Pentax cameras and lenses.
Personally, I would prefer it to be a Pentax camera and lens gallery. One of
the reasons why I made the change in wording when I was looking after the
thing was because some official Pentax distributors (CR Kennedy in Australia
is one iirc) don't distribute Pentax lenses, the result being that some
Pentax shooters on list were excluded through no fault of their own.
I do recall the debate over it was kinda mind numbing, and I remember
rewording it a half dozen times until some sort of concensus was reached and
the complaints stopped.
William Robb
