Bob, I have zero brand loyalty and very little sentimentality about cameras. I inherited my father's camera too, a fine 1953 Leica IIIf kit. He loved it. I found it a pain in the ass to use, and sold it after a year or two worth of trying to use it honoring his memory. His memory remains just as beloved and full of respect without the camera in my hands. It's all just equipment to do the job I want, which is to make photographs. I don't know why the insinuation regards marketing and advertising.
I shot with Nikon SLRs and Leica RFs for thirty+ years. Had the same Nikon kit from 1981 to 2001, plus or minus a lens or body, and had mostly the same Leica kit for 13 years too. Why? because it did the job I wanted. I tried other 35mm equipment in that same time period to see what it might offer (Olympus and Contax) but always went back to the Nikon/Leica gear. I also shot subminiature and a lot of medium format ... not because of someone's advertising but because I like the formats. Digital capture was essentially new in 2002 for me. The cameras were an unknown and I needed to experiment to find out what suited me purposes, felt good in my use, and produced the goods. BTW: The Pentax kit is for sale. I've only made 120 exposures with the Pentax gear in the last 8 months. I'm happier and getting better results working with the other gear I have acquired ... that's all that matters to me. The equipment is transitory, I don't fall in love with objects. What you do is up to your own discretion. I don't disparage it, but I also don't participate in your emotional attachments to equipment. Godfrey On Aug 10, 2008, at 12:18 PM, Bob Sullivan wrote: > Godfrey, > > I still have all my Pentax equipment - ME, Super Program, PZ-1, > *istDS, & K10D, plus the K20D I'm shooting now. Space is no problem > and their monitary value at end of life was easily eclipsed by their > sentimental value and how it feels to shoot with them. I've got my > dad's Retina IIIc too, the 1st 35mm I borrowed. Who could sell these > old friends. > > Maybe if I bought camera after camera after camera looking for that > special something they market in their advertising, I would have owned > more and cycled thru things like you. I think the photographer has > more to do with the image than the camera or lens. > > Regards, Bob S. > > On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> I use any camera I have. For ones I'm relying upon for my work, I >> have >> two identical bodies. >> >> When I stop using a camera, I sell it. Same for lenses. Absolutely no >> point for me to keep equipment taking up space in the closet that I'm >> not using. >> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
