But it's so pretentious, so precious. Pentax's agency obviously worked hard to find a guy with a just-so effete accent. And his fawning over the camera strikes me as ridiculously over the top. Can you tell I don't like it:-). The camera, on the other hand, may well be fine. I have no idea.
Paul On Mar 18, 2013, at 9:07 PM, Mark C <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm actually pretty impressed by the commercial. Aside from the fact that I > would be wearing sweat pants and a the "She's with stupid" T shirt my wife > got me for my birthday, I can relate to the dude in the video. > > But seriously - the brassing thing is totally contrived and Pentax > trivializes themselves by emphasizing that. Yeah, my 6x7 and LX have brassing > but they are over 30 and 20 years old respectively. It is silly to > contemplate using a digital camera that old, but maybe hipsters in 2043 will > be doing lomography with K-5's and M-X's.... 2-d flat field photos will be > all the retro craze. > > But - it is an appealing camera if you are looking for a point and shoot that > is pocketable. But with a coat like that, the guy in the commercial could > have easily carried a Q10 and a couple of lenses. > > Mark > > On 3/18/2013 8:26 AM, Rob Studdert wrote: >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KJSvWlrHnfU#! >> >> Gag >> >> -- >> Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) >> Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours >> Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio >> > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
