On Aug 24, 2006, at 1:52 PM, Tom C wrote: > There's always a matter of needs and wants. No one that pursues > photography > as a hobby NEEDS a DLSR, so it being sufficent for what one needs > is not > really the issue.
I don't pursue photography as a hobby, but even when I did I often needed a systems camera to enable me to do the photography work that was my goal. > I don't need lots of things that I purchase. Of those > items purchased, many features I don't need, but I purchase a given > model > because I want those features. By way of example, you just purchased a > vehicle, not because you needed those features, not because you didn't > already have a vehicle, that all things considered, met likely 99+% > of the > reasons one has a vehicle to begin with. I purchased a new vehicle because the projections of its use vs the vehicle I was driving before would save me a substantial amount of money relative to my monthly expenses. The deal I transacted also took me out of the previous vehicle in an advantageous way, financially, so that it was overall a win-win situation. Is this want or need? Well, I need to be able to pay the rent, and I want to do it while enjoying the experience of my daily life ... LOL > ... Stop being such a Vulcan. :-) Impossible. I was born Vulcan. Ask my mother. I would much rather discuss photography and photographs in the context of using Pentax equipment than speculate endlessly about whether Pentax has a marketing wit or not, whether the Fabulous Secret Feature of the K10D is a new whatchamacallit or finnegan pin attached to the tamper shaft, etc. It seems a much more worthwhile pursuit amongst both professional and hobbyist photographers for a Pentax camera forum, rather than making believe we're sage business strategists and more knowledgeable than marketing weenies. Godfrey Oh yeah, film is still dead. And all that. ;-) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
