From: "John Celio"
Last sunday was Bay to Breakers, an annual footrace across San
Francisco. Few people seem to care about the "race" part, honestly:
tens of thousands of people (generally of college age) walk the route
drunk, high and partying. Lots of people show up in costumes ranging
from adult babies to superheroes to swarms of bees, and there are always
scantily-clad (or even naked) people amongst the crowd too. Because of
all this, most people show up with their cameras. I kept an eye out for
two kinds of cameras out of curiosity: Pentax cameras and film cameras.
I saw four Pentaxes: two dSLRs (late models, though not sure which), a
W90 and an entry-level model whose number I couldn't see.
I saw four film cameras: a Canon T-something, a Nikon F2 and two P&S
ultra-zoom Olympuses (Olympi?)
Digitals from Canon, Sony, Nikon, Casio and some other brands were
represented quite frequently, though I didn't attempt to keep track of
them. Lots of them were ultra-zoom models, though, from every brand
that makes one. The fact that there were as many film cameras as
Pentaxes is somewhat alarming. I saw a few toy cameras (Holgas, etc),
but I don't count them under film cameras since they're more of a
hobbyist niche than 35mm cameras are (though admitedly they're heading
that way).
What sorts of cameras do you notice when you're out in a crowd?
John
Saw a "storm-trooper" K-x in the wild the other day.
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