I almost forgot... In these days of electronic and plastic everything, I thought many of you would be interested to know that the archaeology department where I am based is an all Pentax affair. The technical officer has a brace of P3's and lenses for fieldwork use for members of the department. For in-house or in-field technical photography, the technical officer's use a pair of LX's with a variety of lenses and finders. I was stunned when I found this out...and they have had them forever.
Also, the best book ever published (Dorrell, 1994, see below) for archaeological photography mainly features LX's for 35mm work. I know there is at least one other archaeologist on this list, and now there's me... Seems to me that archaeologists prefer Pentax...(we tend to like old things I suppose). The obvious reasons that field workers would have liked the LX are the body sealing and water resistance, and I would imagine this was sold pretty hard to the like of archaeology departments. But then, 20 years later, and the LX's area still ticking away quietly in the labs at La Trobe, and they get plenty of use. Cheers Shaun Canning PhD Student Archaeology Department La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia, 3086. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 0414-967 644 Dorrell, P. G. (1994) Photography in Archaeology and Conservation. Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge.
