After perusing these threads on how folks got into using their Pentaxes, a couple of thoughts occur to me. One is, why is it "so depressing" to think it's because that's what they might have used as kids? That makes no sense to me at all... We all have to be introduced at some time.
I'm even more certain now it wasn't exactly an ethereal epiphany when the word Pentax was mentioned, and from them on one simply had to buy Pentax! ;^) It does seem that most of our exposure to Pentax was accidental or circumstantial, as opposed to a plan fom the beginning, after having read all they could read about 35mm cameras in general and decided on a Pentax... Now I'm sure that has happened for some folks, and especially some professionally oriented image makers, but for most of us here who are serious amateurs or amateur professionals, it was 'merely' a serendipitious happenstance [a mighty lucky decision!] ;^) Depressing? No way at all! I'm glad that whatever it was that happened to make me a Pentax man happened at all. That was my lucky day! I bought into the Pentax mystique and I'm happy that I did. Keith Whaley "David A. Mann" wrote: > > Mishka wrote: > > > this thread is so depressing... seems like the only reason everyone is > > using pentax gear is because that's what they used when they were kids. > > Well, I bought into Pentax because I saw a nice K2 body in a camera shop. > I wouldn't have cared, but I had recently seen a photo in a library book > which had been taken with a Pentax K2. I had no idea how good or bad the > camera was but after a little web searching decided to buy it (while > still wondering what an aperture is). > > After that I went back to the library and looked in the book again, but > couldn't find the K2 credit. Maybe I'd just imagined it. Its just as > well, I'd probably have bought a cheap plastic Canon otherwise. > > That was about mid-September 1998. If only I'd known... ;) > > Cheers, > > - Dave > > http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/ (out of date)
