Once I answered this the first time, I started looking. At the
Renesance festival I saw in order of prevelance, Kodak ZLRs, so many
that I didn't bother trying to count after a while. One Nikon, D40 or
D60, I didn't look to closely, maybe half a dozen of Canon's latest
incarnation of Rebel and one guy I couldn't miss because of his big
white lens and because his kit probably cost him more than every lens
and body I own combined. He had two Canon D7's one with their 28-70
f2.8 IS lens the other with their latest 70-200 f2.8 IS lens. Must have
been $7000-8000 bucks of camera equipment wanking around. Hell I've
only paid more than that for a /car/' once in my life.
On 5/18/2010 4:02 PM, John Celio wrote:
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
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