P. J. Alling wrote: > I had nothing better to do and so I spent some time perusing the posts > over at the Pentax Forums. The first Pentax discussion forum if you can > believe them. (I wonder if they even know we exist, well yes some of > them do but that comes later). So anyway I found a thread called "Can > the Pentaxians save Pentax?" Apparently there's a bit of angst over > there about the fact that a "Pro" who had been under contract to Pentax > for publicity purposes decided to go back to Canon. Who pops up but our > old friend Alan Chan to snipe about Pentax's "AF performance" and "ill > made AF-540FGZ", not that I'd heard anything really bad about the > latter. I just found it so depressing I had to make a triple strength > screwdriver... > Benjamin Kanarek is a nincompoop. His whole "pentax sponsorship" nonsense started a while back after being banned from a Canon forum. I think he hit every Pentax forum/group/list except this one looking for a shoulder to cry on. He got shot down pretty hard over at photodotnet. Rather funny thread, if you feel like digging for it.
I have no idea if Pentax really "sponsored" him. What I did hear from him was a constant drone about dinners and meetings and lunches with the folks from Pentax France (or Europe or whomever they are these days). He always knew about something coming down the pipe long before anyone else did, but he was so vague that it was impossible to tell if he really knew anything at all. For all I know he was just looking for some attention. The guys over at pentaxforums sure like him, though. I don't guess I was around during the Alan Chan era. Sorry I missed it. -- Scott Loveless http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
