In another forum, there was this thread on old cameras. I first posted a photo of my Canon AE-1 Program and got everyone's attention; then I posted the Minolta SRT-101 and got respect; when I posted the Pentax K2 there was ...
<crickets sound effects> Soon after, a friend posted both his Nikon F3 and Pentax P3 at the same time. People went gaga over the Nikon; nothing was said about the P3. Shortly after, another Pentaxian posted his ME Super which he inherited from his dad and made a side comment about his dad hiding a Hassy somewhere; there was a lengthy discussion about the Hassy. :-D On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:03 PM, D. Glenn Arthur Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This afternoon I got a call from the lab where I dropped off the > film from the wedding I shot recently, saying my proofs were ready. > The trip to the lab and back took rather longer than I'd expected, > because after one of the people there (uh, manager maybe? different > last name than the owner) got into a major, enthusiastic geeking-out > session with me after she mistook my Program Plus for a K1000 from > the back (I had set it down while looking at negs). > > She'd recently dusted off her long-idle K1000 to shoot HIE in, > having read that her Canon wouldn't be good for IR, and rediscovered > what a nice and rugged little camera it was. I told her about this > mailing list. > > The cameras I'm most likely to get comments on when I carry them > are the K-series, all the more so when I do carry a K1000 and > somebody notices the model number as well as the shape. All because > so many people have fond memories of their old K1000, whatever > they're shooting now. I wonder what body, if any, will play the > same role fifteen years from now, when most folks "old student > camera" will have been something else. > > Now I have to remember to take an S3 with me the next time I go in, > after having described what a pleasure the mechanism on those is. > And some of my EIR shots. Come to think of it, I should show her > the K2 as well. > > -- Glenn > > -- > 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. > -- Bong Manayon http://www.bong.uni.cc -- 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.
