On 9/22/06, Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yesterday I met a friend and fellow Pentaxian for lunch in the little town > of Point Richmond. We schmoozed, swapped lenses, and I got to try his new > DA50-200 and Zenitar 16/2.8. After he headed home, I lingered a bit, and > as I was leaving an older gentleman approached me and asked if I was using > a digital camera. One thing led to another, and we grabbed a table outside > the small restaurant where I'd had lunch just a short while before. Ben > had a lot of questions about DSLR's, and we talked mostly about Leica and > Pentax (Ben's a Leica user from the M3 days, and has an M3 and an M4). > > By the time we parted, Ben was quite impressed with the current > capabilities of the Pentax DSLR cameras, and is quite interested in the > K10D. He now has John Celio's info @ Reed's Camera in Walnut Creek, and it > wouldn't surprise me at all if he contacts John and orders the camera. > > Some years ago, after not having done photography for a number of years, I > picked up my cameras again, in part with the idea that it would allow me to > meet new people and make new friends. It certainly has ... from this list > alone I have personally met numerous people from all over the US, some of > whom I consider good friends, and others are certainly great acquaintances, > and that doesn't include those friendships that are only on line > relationships. And, of course, there have been quite a few people I've met > just by carrying a camera around while out shooting, like Ben. > > That's "The Pentax Way." >
What a lovely post, Shel! You made my day. thanks, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
