Hi, it's true, I also got into photography by having inherited the Pentax Spotmatic F after having been owned by my uncle and my father.
But about the male-female thing I have another view. Are you not too easily assuming that everyone who owns a camera, is really in to photography? Anyone (male or female) who wants a camera just for the occasional snapshot, will rather get a small p&s than a SLR. Just like cars: someone travelling long distances each day will ride a big car, while small cars are sufficient of occasional trips for shopping. So the better question is: "why are more men in to photography than women?". Groeten, Vic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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
