My photography was going in a direction that wasn't pleasing me. I decided to cut back on interaction with photography sites, the camera club and, in general, photo enthusiast stuff. So much of what is discussed is only of interest to other photography hobbyists and isn't even on the radar for most folks. I still scan list but don't look at photos much these days.
I have three significant hobbies and moving between them seems cyclical. More time is spent on others as interest in one decreases. For now I'm contended with other things and will return to more active photographic efforts in time. Just an aside: email lists seem to be a hangover from the past. Lists seem to be populated by older folks that discovered the Internet before things like forums and Facebook were around. As only one example, I listen to a very popular podcast for one of my other hobbies. Each episode is downloaded around 100,000 times. It's rare that the associated email list for discussion sees more than half a dozen posts each week. On the other hand, the Facebook group will see about 50 new posts every day. There is very little overlap between the two. You can sense the age divide when reading both. Don't care much for Facebook as a company, but that seems to be where the majority of people are these days. gs George Sinos -------------------- www.GeorgesPhotos.net www.GeorgeSinos.com On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 8:56 AM, Stanley Halpin <s...@stans-photography.info> wrote: > > On Mar 19, 2015, at 8:53 AM, Mark Roberts <postmas...@robertstech.com> wrote: > >> Serious question: How did you find out about the PDML? >> (Everyone please feel free to pipe up here.) >> >> I probably found out about the PDML from the Pentax official web site, >> way back when the PDML was actually run by Pentax. But I'm wondering >> how *anyone* would even learn of the PDML's existence these days. >> >> -- >> Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia >> www.robertstech.com >> >> > > When I gave up video and rediscovered photography in the mid-late ‘90s, I > moved from my old ME-Supers to Pz-1p. The whole autofocus, Power Zoom etc > were a mystery to me. But most importantly, I wanted to buy lenses. > Particularly a “modern” 135mm lens. Looking on eBay, I was totally confused > by the vast numbers of different 135mm lenses. > > So I went to the Pentax site looking for information, found a link to this > group, and the rest is history. > > I remember that one reason people used to give for not staying with PDML once > they found us was that they couldn’t deal with the high volume of messages. > > stan > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
