RE: If you left Pentax, what Scurvy Dawg system would you invite into your life?
Better make that $10 per picture. Your time should be worth more than $0.50. The guys that shoot pictures of customers posing with one of the nude showgirls in strip clubs(titty bars)get $25 for a polaroid print. If you tried to do it cheaper than that, you'd probably be found dead somewhere. :-) Len --- -Original Message- From: Mat Maessen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 3:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: If you left Pentax, what Scurvy Dawg system would you invite into your life? Note to self: charge $7.50/picture. -Mat
Re: If you left Pentax, what Scurvy Dawg system would you invite into your life?
Firstly Nikon, then Canon --- Lon Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd go Olympus, or mebbe Nikon. This thread should flare on for a while. -Lon __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
Re: If you left Pentax, what Scurvy Dawg system would you invite into your life?
GRIN Ciao, Graywolf http://pages.prodigy.net/graywolfphoto - Original Message - From: Mat Maessen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 4:27 PM Subject: Re: If you left Pentax, what Scurvy Dawg system would you invite into your life? Note to self: charge $7.50/picture. -Mat T Rittenhouse wrote: Whee! Take it from someone who has done it, at $5 you lose about $2 on every one you sell. The film is not your only expense. I'd probably find an old SpeedGraphic, put a polaroid back on it, a Metz flash, and I'd sell people their picture for 5 bucks... OK, maybe not the selling part, but I've always wanted to get into large-format photography... -Mat
If you left Pentax, what Scurvy Dawg system would you invite into your life?
I'd go Olympus, or mebbe Nikon. This thread should flare on for a while. -Lon
Re: If you left Pentax, what Scurvy Dawg system would you invite into your life?
I'd switch to medium format if I were to switch brands. Those Mamiya 645's look nice! Christian Still lusting after a 645n.. On Thursday 12 December 2002 15:04, Lon Williamson wrote: I'd go Olympus, or mebbe Nikon. This thread should flare on for a while. -Lon
Re: If you left Pentax, what Scurvy Dawg system would you invite into your life?
Lon's right. I'd go back to Olympus. Older Olympus, not any of the new stuff... They are the closest to Pentax in quality, IMMHO... Besides, they're what I gave up a LONG standing relationship with, to come to this current mistress! keith whaley Lon Williamson wrote: I'd go Olympus, or mebbe Nikon. This thread should flare on for a while. -Lon
RE: If you left Pentax, what Scurvy Dawg system would you invite into your life?
-Original Message- From: Lon Williamson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I'd go Olympus, or mebbe Nikon. This thread should flare on for a while. 35mm I'd go Nikon, and probably digital. I'll probably do this in the spring of 2004 if Pentax doesn't come out with a DSLR I like. Medium format I'd go Hasselblad H1, but I'm pretty happy with my 645n's. I don't think I can justify the difference in cost. I'll probably buy a Leica and a Mamiya 7II one of these days just for the heck of it. tv
Re: If you left Pentax, what Scurvy Dawg system would you invite into your life?
grins All calm here. You are quite correct - my Pentax cameras would still work as well as before the possible abandonment, and I would still use them. However, I would miss the PDML if it went away! Best regards, Ed Matthew From: Keith Whaley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: If you left Pentax, what Scurvy Dawg system would you invite into your life? Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:16:14 -0800 Ed Matthew wrote: I'd go Olympus, or mebbe Nikon. This thread should flare on for a while. -Lon Since Olympus has abandoned the 35mm SLR, I wouldn't go there. Canon bell-ringers turn me off. Nikon, maybe. Regards, Ed What if Pentax did an abandonment thing, in the same way Olympus did, would you throw away all your old screwmounts, all the early and late K-mounts, and say the hell with them all? Maybe you would , but *I* wouldn't. There is so much Pentax 35mm gear out there, it will take me the rest of my lifetime and then some, to explore and buy/trade, and use all of it I can! They haven't given up on ME, per se. If anything, and that's not totally cast in concrete yet, they are deciding to not make 35mm film cameras for a while. Big deal. Everybody gets so UPSET! Calm down folks. keith whaley _ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail
Re: If you left Pentax, what Scurvy Dawg system would you invite into your life?
- Original Message - From: Lon Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: If you left Pentax, what Scurvy Dawg system would you invite into your life? As for the 35mm - Leica or Contax. The rest of the world (i.e. C, N and M) will go mostly digital sooner or later (or sooner THAN later), so the only reason for switching the system would be the CZJ lenses. However, I'd rather switch to the medium format and get 645NII or Rolleiflex SL66 (http://www.sl66.com/ - check this out) Regards Artur --r-e-k-l-a-m-a- Swieta tuz tuz! http://swieta.onet.pl
Re: If you left Pentax, what Scurvy Dawg system would you invite into your life?
On Thursday, December 12, 2002, at 02:04 PM, Lon Williamson wrote: I'd go Olympus, or mebbe Nikon. This thread should flare on for a while. -Lon If all Pentax cameras and lenses were confiscated by aliens or something equally bizarre, I'd opt for the Contax G2 for people and snapshots (maybe Voightlander) and Canon EOS for macro. However, I'd rather think I was quitting Pentax because something new and incredibly cool came out, and I'd go with whatever that was if it fit into my budget. Dan Scott
Re: If you left Pentax, what Scurvy Dawg system would you invite into your life?
Nikon, probably digital.
Re: If you left Pentax, what Scurvy Dawg system would you invite into your life?
- Original Message - From: Lon Williamson Subject: If you left Pentax, what Scurvy Dawg system would you invite into your life? Probably a Wisner 8x10. I'd sell my enlarger too. William Robb
Re: If you left Pentax, what Scurvy Dawg system would you invite into your life?
As a photography novice, I am not convinced one system is significantly better than another. In fact, I've gathered -- sort of by osmosis -- that the emphasis is: Nikon - professional camera bodies (stury, reliable) Canon - technology (autofocus, digital) Pentax - lenses Anyway, I'd go Canon for the autofocus. Older now, and nearsighted, that makes sense to me. I will probably go digital in a couple of years and switching to Canon then. A diverse company that also does other types of technology (copiers, printers, etc.) is probably going to do digital better, on the whole. Besides I really like what they have now (just too pricey). But that's why it's a good idea to wait for a year or two (and that's why they invented ebay). Doe aka Marnie ;-)
Re: If you left Pentax, what Scurvy Dawg system would you invite into your life?
To state the obvious, hell you wouldn't need one. At 06:03 PM 12/12/2002 -0600, you wrote: - Original Message - From: Lon Williamson Subject: If you left Pentax, what Scurvy Dawg system would you invite into your life? Probably a Wisner 8x10. I'd sell my enlarger too. William Robb
