Nostalgia as a Conversation Starter
This afternoon I got a call from the lab where I dropped off the film from the wedding I shot recently, saying my proofs were ready. The trip to the lab and back took rather longer than I'd expected, because after one of the people there (uh, manager maybe? different last name than the owner) got into a major, enthusiastic geeking-out session with me after she mistook my Program Plus for a K1000 from the back (I had set it down while looking at negs). She'd recently dusted off her long-idle K1000 to shoot HIE in, having read that her Canon wouldn't be good for IR, and rediscovered what a nice and rugged little camera it was. I told her about this mailing list. The cameras I'm most likely to get comments on when I carry them are the K-series, all the more so when I do carry a K1000 and somebody notices the model number as well as the shape. All because so many people have fond memories of their old K1000, whatever they're shooting now. I wonder what body, if any, will play the same role fifteen years from now, when most folks "old student camera" will have been something else. Now I have to remember to take an S3 with me the next time I go in, after having described what a pleasure the mechanism on those is. And some of my EIR shots. Come to think of it, I should show her the K2 as well. -- Glenn -- 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.
Re: Nostalgia as a Conversation Starter
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:03:32AM -0400, D. Glenn Arthur Jr. wrote: > > The cameras I'm most likely to get comments on when I carry them > are the K-series, all the more so when I do carry a K1000 and > somebody notices the model number as well as the shape. It used to be really uncommon to see another user with a Pentax. But last weekend (at the Computer History Museum Babbage event) I spotted (besides the horde of Canons, a D300 or two, and even a D3) *two* other Pentax shooters. One had a *ist DL, while the other had a K10D. -- 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.
Re: Nostalgia as a Conversation Starter
In another forum, there was this thread on old cameras. I first posted a photo of my Canon AE-1 Program and got everyone's attention; then I posted the Minolta SRT-101 and got respect; when I posted the Pentax K2 there was ... Soon after, a friend posted both his Nikon F3 and Pentax P3 at the same time. People went gaga over the Nikon; nothing was said about the P3. Shortly after, another Pentaxian posted his ME Super which he inherited from his dad and made a side comment about his dad hiding a Hassy somewhere; there was a lengthy discussion about the Hassy. :-D On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:03 PM, D. Glenn Arthur Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This afternoon I got a call from the lab where I dropped off the > film from the wedding I shot recently, saying my proofs were ready. > The trip to the lab and back took rather longer than I'd expected, > because after one of the people there (uh, manager maybe? different > last name than the owner) got into a major, enthusiastic geeking-out > session with me after she mistook my Program Plus for a K1000 from > the back (I had set it down while looking at negs). > > She'd recently dusted off her long-idle K1000 to shoot HIE in, > having read that her Canon wouldn't be good for IR, and rediscovered > what a nice and rugged little camera it was. I told her about this > mailing list. > > The cameras I'm most likely to get comments on when I carry them > are the K-series, all the more so when I do carry a K1000 and > somebody notices the model number as well as the shape. All because > so many people have fond memories of their old K1000, whatever > they're shooting now. I wonder what body, if any, will play the > same role fifteen years from now, when most folks "old student > camera" will have been something else. > > Now I have to remember to take an S3 with me the next time I go in, > after having described what a pleasure the mechanism on those is. > And some of my EIR shots. Come to think of it, I should show her > the K2 as well. > > -- Glenn > > -- > 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. > -- Bong Manayon http://www.bong.uni.cc -- 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.
Re: Nostalgia as a Conversation Starter
- Original Message - From: "John Francis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> D. Glenn Arthur Jr. wrote: >> >> The cameras I'm most likely to get comments on when I carry them >> are the K-series, all the more so when I do carry a K1000 and >> somebody notices the model number as well as the shape. > > It used to be really uncommon to see another user with a Pentax. > But last weekend (at the Computer History Museum Babbage event) > I spotted (besides the horde of Canons, a D300 or two, and even > a D3) *two* other Pentax shooters. One had a *ist DL, while the > other had a K10D. > Yes, a couple of weekends ago, my husband & I were out with friends at a German bar & I saw a young shooter with a K100D, and he said he LOVED his camera. Then the next day in the nature center by my house, I saw someone with a K20D. Cheers, Christine -- 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.
