A show of hands
of those who felt subtle pressure to hold back criticism due to Pentax being
the host
> would be interesting...
>
My nature is to try to be as pleasant as possible to my host. Hand up.
That said, I always felt as if there were 3 main camps on the list,
1) The Pentax is Perfect folks
2) The Pentax is fallible but redeemable folks
3) The Pentax stinks folks
Of the Pentax is fallible folks, I doubt anything they ever said never
occured to the brass at Pentax. The PDML was an outstanding idea for a
company to get essentially continuous customer feedback, and the lack of a
steering hand made the list members that much more free to express their
true feelings and wishes about the product they gathered to discuss. It is
obviously testament to the core PDMLers over the last 5 years that Pentax
didn't shut the whole thing down sooner. There really is a fond and good
natured element that, regardless of their persuasion to bash or praise
Pentax, know photography in general and Pentax in particular.
Thanks,
Chris
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