Actually, I bet it's a fair sample of serious amateurs. Many serious amateurs in the US spend enough money on their gear to include a DSLR, if they want one. Most of the these folks don't use Pentax, although the PDML get-together lead to an over representation of Pentax. For that matter, we might under represent the DSLR ownership since Pentax doesn't have a low end DSLR yet.
> > At the Grandfather Mountain Nature Photography Weekend, which is a > film-only photo competition, fully 40% of those surveyed own a DSLR. > (Out of 160 participants, 104 completed the survey.) That's vastly > higher than I expected. True, but I'm betting GFM was a skewed sample of photographers. How many of them also own multiple film cameras? How many of them own LXen or MZ-Ss? For that matter, the fact that they went to (and presumably paid for) a photo workshop would suggest that most of the attendees were more serious than the average amateur. DJE
