I was in a shoe shop today, looking at shoes (surprise, surprise). I had my M8 hanging from my shoulder. After staring disconsolately at the footwear on offer I heard somebody muttering something in my ear. It was a shop assistant.
"Is that old thing an SLR or a rangefinder?" "It's a rangefinder" "Does it still work?", he said, laughing. He was really taking the piss out of the camera. "What do you mean?" "In this digital day and age! Does manual film still work?" "It's digital" "Digital? That?! It likes a really old thing. Is it a Rioch (sic)?" "A what?" "A Rioch" "No, it's a Leica" "Man! That looks so old!" I can't imagine how he expected to get a sale out of me after that, even if they'd had any shoes I wanted to buy. Just to keep it on topic, as I was walking away shaking my head in disbelief I heard him tell one of his colleagues that he had a Pentax K1000. Bob -- 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.
