Well, my first camera was given to me by a elderly lady, Mrs. Looney, no less. My second was handed down to me by my Mom as I went off into the Air Force, because she wanted me to send her photos probably. Now, my dad, he did a great job of teaching me how to think poor, only I did not get the part about hoarding my money <grin>.
I am trying to think whether the girls had cameras, I believe most of them did (pink or purple ones), but at 10 or so I did not pay much attention to girls, sorry. In my neighborhood none of the kids had "real" cameras. Factory workers in the 50's were not particularly well to do. --graywolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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
