I was going to throw out a suggestion for everybody to consider--do you think it might be useful for us to pick an "official book" that might help provide examples for us when we engage in discussion?
I was thinking along the lines of a cheap, readily available book with a great variety of pictures from the whole history of photography. If each of us were to purchase a copy, then we could refer to it when trying to illustrate a point, ask somebody else to provide an example from it, or otherwise refer someone else somewhere else in the world to the same page from the same book so we can be looking at the same thing. Sort of like a "PDML Handbook." Do people think that might be useful? If so, I'd like to propose a candidate: the George Eastman House compendium published by Taschen, called _Photography from 1839 to Today_ (ISBN 3-8228-7073-0). Go to www.taschen.com or find it at amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/002-6666612-5578426 It's a small but very fat paperback with more than a thousand illustrations in particularly high-quality reproductions (for this sort of thing) and yet it's very cheap--only $20. I think this might give us a "mine" of photographs of all sorts that we could refer to (and, unlike using pictures from the PUG, nobody's ego would be on the line). Plus, it's a great little book that I don't think anybody would mind having. Just an idea. What say ye? --Mike - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
