On 4/29/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > An exchange started yesterday at the Southern Maryland Celtic Festival, > by someone who saw me photographing the band that performed after us > with my K2: > > "You can't beat that Pentax." > > [After checking which camera I was using] "Well, I suppose, depending > on your tastes, you might beat it with a different Pentax. Or, > depending on your tastes, you might not." > > "Yeah. They're great cameras. I have an LX." > > Whoops. I'd forgotten about the LX. Yup, you can beat the K2 with > another Pentax even if you really like the K2 ... > > > (I also had a conversation with a couple of much younger fans, > when they saw the cameras I was using. They were intrigued by > the Holga, though quite reasonably more attracted to the Pentax > K2 (I had also brought the Program Plus and PZ-10); one said > she'd gotten a Canon AE-1 specifically for a photography class. > I wish I'd brought an S3 with me ... I did pull out the Argus > 'brick' that I'd brought along but not used, for a bit of "show > and tell".) > > > > I shot 125 frames on my digital camera yesterday. Plus eight > rolls of film and finishing off two more rolls that were already > loaded when I started. I'd started the day thinking I was > probably too tired to do a lot of shooting and might need a > nap before our performance ... but there was so much to shoot > even though I didn't wander too far from our stage most of the > day. (Okay, a lot of that was trying to catch other performers > in different postures / with different expressions / from different > angles.)
I sure as hell get much more conversation from strangers about my older Pentaxes - Not so much the LXen, but the MX and the Spotties - than I do with the *istD. The little Leica CL gets more yet (when it's noticed), but the sure-fire attention-getter of my arsenal (such as it is) is my Yashica Mat. There just aren't a lot of people out there shooting with anything that looks like a tlr anymore... ;-) Sounds like you had fun with your cameras, Glenn! cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
