When I met my wife, she was using a Spotmatic and doing wonderful flower and nature shots. She had started young with an Exacta her father gave her when he moved on to Nikons. I talked her into upgrading to an ME Super so we could share lenses on our bicycle tours. She now happily uses an Optio 555 and has no interest in SLR's or DSLR's. I think it is a pragmatic thing - she is not enamored with the mechanism, just wants to be able to take pictures without too much fuss.
Stan On Oct 22, 2006, at 5:06 AM, Jens Bladt wrote: > It is interesting. > In my experience - to women, size matters most. The smaller the > better. I > have known men to have a similar approach to buying a camera too. > I never really cared much about the size of a camera. I don't carry a > camera > where ever I go. I photograph when, I go out to photograph - not when > I'm > doing other things. If I do, I have small cameras for such occasions - > like > a Minox GL. > That's probably one explanation for women being less prone to buy a > SLR. > Do you actually know of any statistics on this matter? > > I simply love cameras and lenses. Some are just beautiful. I guess I > like > cameras the same way woman like jewellery. > Women buy jewellery - men buy cameras, cell phones, GPS, nice tools, > nice > knives or guns etc. > > In Germany they sometimes call a pretty, high quality camera > "smuckstuck" > which means an object that makes you look good. > > > Jens Bladt > http://www.jensbladt.dk > +45 56 63 77 11 > +45 23 43 85 77 > Skype: jensbladt248 > > -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- > Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] vegne af > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sendt: 22. oktober 2006 03:35 > Til: [email protected] > Emne: Re: Your first camera > > > Sidebar - It's been interesting to me how many men on this list started > young > -- given a camera by their father, uncle, neighbor, some older male. > Sort of > a male thing. Maybe even a male bonding thing. > > I know in my family, my father gave a 35mm camera to my older brother > and > not > me (got a new one, passed the old one along). Guys are supposed to > techie or > something, right? Well, those assumptions were definitely prevalent > back > then. > Later when I was going to take a trip to Tahiti in my thirties I got > myself > a > Pentax P&S and that was my first real camera. > > Anyway, I started wondering if that isn't one reason more men than > women use > SLRs and DSLRs. (I think with P&Ss the gender percentages are probably > about > the same.) > > Guys were handed cameras young. > > Idle speculation, but interesting. At least to me. > > Marnie aka Doe :-) > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.9/490 - Release Date: > 10/20/2006 > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.9/490 - Release Date: > 10/20/2006 > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
