Sure, a Nikon in the 70's was as much a man's necklace as a photo tool.
Jens Bladt wrote: > It is interesting. > In my experience - to women, size matters most. The smaller the better. I > have known men to have a similar approach to buying a camera too. > I never really cared much about the size of a camera. I don't carry a camera > where ever I go. I photograph when, I go out to photograph - not when I'm > doing other things. If I do, I have small cameras for such occasions - like > a Minox GL. > That's probably one explanation for women being less prone to buy a SLR. > Do you actually know of any statistics on this matter? > > I simply love cameras and lenses. Some are just beautiful. I guess I like > cameras the same way woman like jewellery. > Women buy jewellery - men buy cameras, cell phones, GPS, nice tools, nice > knives or guns etc. > > In Germany they sometimes call a pretty, high quality camera "smuckstuck" > which means an object that makes you look good. > > > Jens Bladt > http://www.jensbladt.dk > +45 56 63 77 11 > +45 23 43 85 77 > Skype: jensbladt248 > > -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- > Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] vegne af > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sendt: 22. oktober 2006 03:35 > Til: [email protected] > Emne: Re: Your first camera > > > 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 > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.9/490 - Release Date: 10/20/2006 > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.9/490 - Release Date: 10/20/2006 > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
