For what it's worth
All during the 60's at the Toronto Star, Boris Spremo, an award winning photographer
used nothing but Pentax. He continued
to use it as much as possible but eventually had to use Nikon as the Star wouldn't
subsidize his Pentax purchases. He was
featured on many of the Pentax Canada ads.
herb
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 21:11:32 +0000, Bob Walkden wrote:
>...they're only for amateurs and beginners.
>
>a certain photographer's wife...
>
>"...was an architectural student, and bought a camera to make pictures
>for her studies. It was a Pentax Spotmatic, and he remembers it with
>great affection.
>
>"It was the first I had looked inside a camera, and for me it was
>incredible. I had a big, big interest in this. It was June 1970, and
>Lelia bought it with a 50mm lens, and just one week later we bought a
>28mm and a 200mm. These were real excitements, allowing us to look at
>things in a different way. [...] it totally invaded my life.
>
>"At the time I was writing my PhD thesis [...] Inside a month I had a
>big wish to abandon it all and become a photographer."
>
>from an interview by Simon James with Sebastiao Salgado.
>'RPS Journal', March 2001.
>
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>
> Bob
>
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