Sidebar - It's been interesting to me how many men on this list started young -- given a camera by their father, uncle, neighbor, some older male. Sort of a male thing. Maybe even a male bonding thing.
I know in my family, my father gave a 35mm camera to my older brother and not me (got a new one, passed the old one along). Guys are supposed to techie or something, right? Well, those assumptions were definitely prevalent back then. Later when I was going to take a trip to Tahiti in my thirties I got myself a Pentax P&S and that was my first real camera. Anyway, I started wondering if that isn't one reason more men than women use SLRs and DSLRs. (I think with P&Ss the gender percentages are probably about the same.) Guys were handed cameras young. Idle speculation, but interesting. At least to me. Marnie aka Doe :-) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
