Skip,
I guess I should be flattered that you paid that much attention to what I wrote. If
you'll read the post from Alex to which I responded, I think my choice of wording will
become clear.
Just to clear things up, Pentax does not control my mind. I don't worship Pentax. I
use their equipment, so when they introduce new equipment which appears to be
something I could use in my work, I pay attention.
Doug
At 3:35 PM -05002/14/01, dosk caused thus to appear:
>Re;
>
>>Is that okay with you?
>>
>> Tell me why it's so curious that I've decided to actually test drive the
>MZ-S before passing any serious judgement on it....
>
>Whether or not it's "okay" with me makes no difference, does it? The thing I
>picked up on was your original choice of wording;- "compelled" to get it...
>(Wording which I see you are now lowering in intensity.) And I am curious as
>to why you picked those exact words? And I am not critisizing you. Please!
>I myself have some of these very same feelings...!
>
>However I am coming to believe that our world is becoming more and more
>controlled by those who create obsessive demands for, manufacture, and then
>sell products. (Especially the entertainment and toy industries.) What I am
>amazed about here (in Pentaxia) is the absolute frenzy that seems to be
>generated on this list by the simple fact of a corporation producing a new
>toy....
>As someone has already said, it's a camera, not a religion. (Or is it?)
>
>Someone else has also said here (and in approval, not jest, I believe), that
>one's machines (alright, a car, they said) soon become the subject of
>adoration and worship.
>I find that sad, and somewhat foreboding. I am wondering, how will it be
>when TC's rule the world? (TC's = Transnational Corporations, not
>tele-converters!)
>
>Anyway, I thought my initial poem/complaint about it (did any here recognize
>it as a poem?) was pretty good! (Even if no one else did.) And I will use it
>(albeit slightly modified) in a new book I am working on. I consider prose
>and poetry about the cultural and social dangers of the new Consumerite
>religions and the sad doctrines of their high (CEO) priests, to be far more
>pertinent and up to date than the (by now) moldy tackiness of Monty
>Python... (Whom I loved when they first came out, but grew tired of after
>the 600th episode.)
>
>I've no wish to offend anyone here. I do think that Pentax, after all, does
>make the best SLR cameras I've ever used. But I could live without (several
>of?) them. (Really I could...) But also I thought this was a forum for
>photographers (hobbyists or otherwise) who used Pentax equipment because
>they liked it, and not because they worshipped it...
>
>Anyway, IMO all of this does make for good discourse, as it is enlightening
>to me. The TC's already seem to know how to capture our minds, and now
>they're going after our souls! (And no, I myself am not particularly
>religious. Just scared for my grandchildren...)
>
>Greywoulf. Dosk. Skip (Take your pick...)
--
Douglas Forrest Brewer
Ashwood Lake Photography
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http://www.alphoto.com
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