It is interesting. In my experience - to women, size matters most. The smaller the better. I have known men to have a similar approach to buying a camera too. I never really cared much about the size of a camera. I don't carry a camera where ever I go. I photograph when, I go out to photograph - not when I'm doing other things. If I do, I have small cameras for such occasions - like a Minox GL. That's probably one explanation for women being less prone to buy a SLR. Do you actually know of any statistics on this matter?
I simply love cameras and lenses. Some are just beautiful. I guess I like cameras the same way woman like jewellery. Women buy jewellery - men buy cameras, cell phones, GPS, nice tools, nice knives or guns etc. In Germany they sometimes call a pretty, high quality camera "smuckstuck" which means an object that makes you look good. Jens Bladt http://www.jensbladt.dk +45 56 63 77 11 +45 23 43 85 77 Skype: jensbladt248 -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] vegne af [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 22. oktober 2006 03:35 Til: pdml@pdml.net Emne: Re: Your first camera Sidebar - It's been interesting to me how many men on this list started young -- given a camera by their father, uncle, neighbor, some older male. Sort of a male thing. Maybe even a male bonding thing. I know in my family, my father gave a 35mm camera to my older brother and not me (got a new one, passed the old one along). Guys are supposed to techie or something, right? Well, those assumptions were definitely prevalent back then. Later when I was going to take a trip to Tahiti in my thirties I got myself a Pentax P&S and that was my first real camera. Anyway, I started wondering if that isn't one reason more men than women use SLRs and DSLRs. (I think with P&Ss the gender percentages are probably about the same.) Guys were handed cameras young. Idle speculation, but interesting. At least to me. Marnie aka Doe :-) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.9/490 - Release Date: 10/20/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.9/490 - Release Date: 10/20/2006 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
