> The oldies and the silverbacks among us will be pleased to hear that > the K1000 is still in use as a student camera. On my way to work I > walk past a college. Normally it's surrounded by students engaged in > extra-curricular chemistry, but for a change yesterday they all seemed > to be wandering around photographing litter-bins, paving stones and > passing office workers. And they were all, without exception, using > K1000s.
Hey look, another camera shop anecdote from John. Imagine that. A few times a year, students used to come to me at the camera shop with their lists of materials needed for their beginning photography classes. Without fail, every teacher would recommend the K1000 as the camera to get (though sometimes with a couple other models). It was comical, really, because if we were sold out of K1000s, invariably there would be students who would absolutely freak out that they couldn't get what their teacher told them to get. It was a struggle, but I was able to convince most of them that they'd be just fine with something else, such as the ZX-M or an old Minolta. The ones that couldn't be convinced, though, either left mad, or in tears. I understood their frustration, but still can't understand why they would react that way (it's not like I was being aggressive about it or anything, I was just trying to help). John -- http://www.neovenator.com http://www.cafepress.com/neovenatorphoto -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
