TLR's are a sure attention-getter. I've had a Japanese Tourist try and buy my Super Ricohflex off me in the past, and it always gets comments.
-Adam frank theriault wrote: > 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 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
