Excellent, another one.... Shaun Canning PhD Student Archaeology Department La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia, 3086.
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 0414-967 644 -----Original Message----- From: Christian Skofteland [mailto:c_skofteland@;mindspring.com] Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 1:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: LX's abd Archaeology PDMLer Cesar uses his LXen on archeological sites. Christian On Wednesday 06 November 2002 19:35, Shaun Canning wrote: > I almost forgot... > > In these days of electronic and plastic everything, I thought many of you > would be interested to know that the archaeology department where I am > based is an all Pentax affair. The technical officer has a brace of P3's > and lenses for fieldwork use for members of the department. For in-house or > in-field technical photography, the technical officer's use a pair of LX's > with a variety of lenses and finders. I was stunned when I found this > out...and they have had them forever. > > Also, the best book ever published (Dorrell, 1994, see below) for > archaeological photography mainly features LX's for 35mm work. I know there > is at least one other archaeologist on this list, and now there's me... > > Seems to me that archaeologists prefer Pentax...(we tend to like old things > I suppose). The obvious reasons that field workers would have liked the LX > are the body sealing and water resistance, and I would imagine this was > sold pretty hard to the like of archaeology departments. But then, 20 years > later, and the LX's area still ticking away quietly in the labs at La > Trobe, and they get plenty of use. > > Cheers > > Shaun Canning > PhD Student > Archaeology Department > La Trobe University, Bundoora, > Australia, 3086. > > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Phone: 0414-967 644 > > Dorrell, P. G. (1994) Photography in Archaeology and Conservation. > Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge.
