He can't be a total wanker, he has a son. Unless the conception was done through a straw... (What I wanted to say wouldn't have fit on a family list either).
Bob W wrote: > Well, nice to hear him say that about Pentax, but what sort of > credibility does someone have if they can write "Neither Canon nor > Nikon ever made anything used by serious photographers". > > It's this sort of thing that makes him such a total arse, frankly, in > the way he blithely dismisses almost every photojournalist of the last > 60 years as 'newsguys' and not 'serious photographers'. What a wanker. > > To say nothing of his assumption that amateurs are not serious > photographers. > > If this wasn't a family list I'd call him a Gareth. > > -- > Bob > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >> Behalf Of Peter Lacus >> Sent: 21 March 2007 22:04 >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> Subject: Re: Facts about the PDML's favorite photographer >> >> >>> http://www.modestypanel.com/artorcrap/# >>> >>> I got 12/16, which was a bit disappointing, but I didn't >>> > understand > >>> that some of it was not art, and the pisspot suckered me. >>> >> I scored 8/16, e.g. truly random, but I think they are all >> crap in there >> anyway. >> >> BTW have you noticed: >> "Pentax' ads were cute, but very sad. Pentax has been one of >> the driving >> forces in Japanese photo gear for many decades. Want to know >> what light >> meter Ansel Adams used? He used the Pentax spotmeters. >> >> It's sad that Pentax has to grovel to Canon and Nikon like >> this. Neither >> Canon nor Nikon ever made anything used by serious >> photographers, like >> Ansel's light meters or the extraordinary Pentax 67 medium-format >> > SLR > >> system which still creates images far better technically than >> anything >> from Nikon or Canon. Canon and Nikon have only made piddly >> 35mm cameras >> or digital SLRs used by amateurs and newsguys, not large >> format gear for >> serious artists (Nikon does make view camera lenses.) >> >> Pentax shouldn't have to supplicate itself to Canon and Nikon." >> >> these words wrote the same Ken Rockwell >> http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/pma07-b.htm >> >> Cheers, >> >> Peter >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> >> >> > > > -- Entropy Seminar: The results of a five yeer studee ntu the sekend lw uf thurmodynamiks aand itz inevibl fxt hon shewb rt nslpn raq liot. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
