----- Original Message ----- From: "Roland Mabo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Re: Pentax <--> Canon
> Artur, calm down. I am calm, really. > I have never accused you of anything. I don't agree with your opinion, but > this doesn't mean that I see you as a bad person so there's no need for you > to take it personal. I simply has written my opinion and if you feel > offended by my thoughts, then I can honestly say that it has never been my > wish to offend you. OK, never mind:) I remember a posting for you when you wrote that FA > lenses weren't as solid as the competition in general and you mentioned > Nikon in particular. But if my memory is wrong, then I apologize. I'm only a > human and memory is a tricky thing you know. Perhaps I'm getting old? :-) Hmmm, I'm pretty sure it wasn't me, but I can of course be mistaken. However, I wrote in one of my recent posts that I definitely prefer the F series lenses to the amateur FA lenses that are produced nowadays. > > I understand that you belong to the "Z-1 brigade". :-) Yes, by all means:) And I'm glad Pentax seems to be returning to the Z-series philosophy by implementing HyperProgram into the *ist D and perhaps into the bodies to follow. > Well, I do not. My first Pentax was a small and thin one (P30), and I've > never liked the other brands because they're making cameras too big, bulky > and ugly. I was very happy with my P30 when Pentax had the Z-serie. I had no > wish to replace it with a Z. I've never liked those cameras. They have many > fine ideas, but the styling... the size... The MZ-5, however, was almost > tailor made for me. And I simply adores the MZ-S. It's not easy to be > Pentax. The ME/MZ users want something small, the Z-serie users wants > something big. Well, I believe the battery grip for the *ist will make even > the Z-users happy. Before the Z-1p I used an MZ-50, MZ-7, Z-50p, MZ-5n - I'm reffering now to the AF bodies only. I was happy with all of them - although especially with the MZ-7. And I also had a ProgramA, and now I'm a happy owner of a SuperA (bought from Boz:)). I'm not the Z-1p-only man...:) > I'm not worried about your happiness. I simply believes that if one isn't > satisfied - if one looks at Minolta or Nikon or whatever and feels like > "that's nice, I would like that" and "Pentax is not as good, Pentax is too > slow at introducing bla bla" then I see no reason to stay with Pentax. And > this is directed to everyone who complains. We have a saying in Sweden that > goes like "Don't complain about the darkness, light a candle". Now, I > strongly believes in this. I, on the other hand, believe that we humans have minds and senses to look around, compare, analyse, ask, search etc. It's dangerous to isolate oneself from things that are different ( I don't mean getting into those things, I mean knowing them), because that's the way to both fanatism and self-overconfidence - straight ways to fall. Knowledge is the greatest strength, especially knowledge of one's opponents' or competitors' strenghts and weaknesses (and obviously awareness of one's own strengths and weaknesses is a must). Or, in case of me as a customer, knowledge allows choices to be good. OK, that was quite a debate:) Regards Artur
