No. our his rhetoric refers to the manner in which many Nikon and Canon buyers make their choice. This has nothing to do with spending money, which all camera users have to do, and much to do with media hype misleading consumers. Nobody buys a Pentax because of marketing (Pentax dont do any as such), they buy it because they make an informed choice or because they prefer the camera. Many people buy N & C without research or testing because thats what they see marketed and thats supposedly what pro's use. Not all, but many. Paal did not IIRC complain about the way they spent their money, just the fact that they then propogate the marketing myth to other users trying to get informed opinion. They can buy what they want, just dont come back and tell us that what they bought was best when they did not try the opposition for themselves.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Bruce Rubenstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 12 March 2002 14:01 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Consume yourself happy with instant gratification > (WAS:Silly Photo.net thread) > > > When your rhetoric is reduced to a single sentence, "Spending > money on camera > equipment is consumerism when you buy Nikon and Canon, and > isn't when you buy > Pentax." is exactly what one gets. No one here has been > accused of consumerism > because they bought a MZ-S, 645n system or expensive lenses. > Your position > reeks of hypocrisy. > Your assertion that people buy Nikon and Canon due to being > brainwashed by > marketing implies that they are simple minded dupes, e.g. > stupid. If you don't > like the way people spend their money, too bad; it's theirs > and not yours. > > > --- P�l Audun Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > This is unfair at best. I don't think it's stupid to buy a > Nikon. In fact, > > I have considered it myself. Nor can I remember anyone here > claiming that > > Nikon or Canon is stupid. This is in contrast to Photo.net > where you should > > buy a Canon because it's hard to find used 300mm lenses for > Olympus. People > > on this list own different brands of cameras and know there > are different > > tools for different jobs and that there are different > preferences. We are > > definitely Pentax fans but that doesn't mean we think > everybody else have > > missed the boat. Now that's the difference.... > Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! > http://mail.yahoo.com/ > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
