So, I was in Yosemite over the weekend and I was shooting with my Dad. We were near mirror lake when a couple of tourists paused as the walked by to look at the 67.
The man saw me pulling a roll of Ektachrome out of the camera and he turned to wife and said, "Oh, look honey, he's using film. How quaint." I chuckled but still pointed to the plastic Canon dslr around his neck and replied, "Yep. But I'd like to see the 16 by 20's you get from that thing..." Now he chuckled and said he knew what I meant and said that his DSLR was actually the first digital he'd used. In fact, it was his company's camera and they just stopped using film cameras. The real funny part for me though was when they started asking about the 67 and I described the size of the negative and whatnot. I swiveled the camera around on the tripod and they both said, "Pentax!?" I laughed again. "Yes, it's a Pentax," I said, "you seem suprised." The man's wife said, "is that screwmount?" "No, it's bayonet mount, been around since 1969." And on and on... I still love it when people see something other than Nikon and Canon and are suprised. Just cracks me up. BTW, we were at Mono Lake and happened upon a camera club shooting the Tufas. There were probably 30-40 members on the shore with maybe 2-3 feet between them. Not one pentax in the crowd as far as I could see...except mine but I wasn't even shooting...the light was terrible. I saw lots of Canons, Nikons, and at least one digi Hassy and a Mamiya. On the way back to the truck I saw a guy shooting with a Rollei. -Brendan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
