Maybe I am helping to break that past trend. Both of my oldest daughters have shown great interest. My oldest has both an MX and *ist film cameras. My next daughter just finished shooting a wedding with me yesterday using one of my *istD's.
-- Best regards, Bruce Saturday, October 21, 2006, 6:34:51 PM, you wrote: Eac> Sidebar - It's been interesting to me how many men on this list started young Eac> -- given a camera by their father, uncle, neighbor, some older male. Sort of Eac> a male thing. Maybe even a male bonding thing. Eac> I know in my family, my father gave a 35mm camera to my older brother and not Eac> me (got a new one, passed the old one along). Guys are supposed to techie or Eac> something, right? Well, those assumptions were definitely prevalent back then. Eac> Later when I was going to take a trip to Tahiti in my thirties I got myself a Eac> Pentax P&S and that was my first real camera. Eac> Anyway, I started wondering if that isn't one reason more men than women use Eac> SLRs and DSLRs. (I think with P&Ss the gender percentages are probably about Eac> the same.) Eac> Guys were handed cameras young. Eac> Idle speculation, but interesting. At least to me. Eac> Marnie aka Doe :-) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
