>If you have confidence in your own judgement then I don't really see >where other people's respect comes into it.
Well spoken, Bob! Perhaps that's the real reason I use Pentax - to show (off) my confidence in my own judgements!!! Furthermore - it's the photographs that should earn respect. None of my customers ever asked which camera brand I use. Perhaps they may ask me later, if I show them a very good photograph: "Very nice - which camera did you use". More like a courtesy question, not because they really want to know :-) And quite frankly, if I, prior to an assignment, asked them, which equipment they would prefer, I'd probably just get a glassy look...... The question wouldn't earn any respect at all. On the contrary. Tomorrow I'll be shooting a historic event (two city councils merging) in a hotel lobby. With my favourite zoom (Tokina AT-X 2.6-2.8/28-70mm) in the repair shop, I have a problem! What should I use instead? If I had a Nikon or a Canon I could easily borrow another great zoom. But since I'm a Pentax man, I'm in trouble! I know one (1) Pentax guy, who might lend me a FA 2.8/28-70mm. Well, for the group shots (40 people) I'll be using my 6x6 (Pentacon/Carl Zeiss) anyway. For this I wouldn't even trust a tiny 24x36 negative, let alone a 15x24mm CCD. Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Bob W [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 29. marts 2005 20:19 Til: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Emne: Re: Future of DA lenses Hi, > With Pentax in particular, I think many of us suffer from equipment > inferiority complexes. We like our equipment, we like the results we get, > but in the real world Pentax gets little respect when compared to the big > two consumer camera manufacturers. If you have confidence in your own judgement then I don't really see where other people's respect comes into it. > Even though we know better, and we know the brand of equipment does not not > make the photo, we still wish a Nikon or Canon user would walk up and say > "Nice Pentax". Used to happen to me a lot when I had the LXs. -- Cheers, Bob
