A conversation yesterday

[frank theriault]

On 4/29/07, dglenn at panix.com <dglenn at panix.com> wrote:
> An exchange started yesterday at the Southern Maryland Celtic Festival,
> by someone who saw me photographing the band that performed after us
> with my K2:
>
> "You can't beat that Pentax."
>
> [After checking which camera I was using]  "Well, I suppose, depending
> on your tastes, you might beat it with a different Pentax.  Or,
> depending on your tastes, you might not."
>
> "Yeah.  They're great cameras.  I have an LX."
>
> Whoops.  I'd forgotten about the LX.  Yup, you can beat the K2 with
> another Pentax even if you really like the K2 ...
>
>
> (I also had a conversation with a couple of much younger fans,
> when they saw the cameras I was using.  They were intrigued by
> the Holga, though quite reasonably more attracted to the Pentax
> K2 (I had also brought the Program Plus and PZ-10); one said
> she'd gotten a Canon AE-1 specifically for a photography class.
> I wish I'd brought an S3 with me ... I did pull out the Argus
> 'brick' that I'd brought along but not used, for a bit of "show
> and tell".)
>
>
>
> I shot 125 frames on my digital camera yesterday.  Plus eight
> rolls of film and finishing off two more rolls that were already
> loaded when I started.  I'd started the day thinking I was
> probably too tired to do a lot of shooting and might need a
> nap before our performance ... but there was so much to shoot
> even though I didn't wander too far from our stage most of the
> day.  (Okay, a lot of that was trying to catch other performers
> in different postures / with different expressions / from different
> angles.)

I sure as hell get much more conversation from strangers about my
older Pentaxes - Not so much the LXen, but the MX and the Spotties -
than I do with the *istD.

The little Leica CL gets more yet (when it's noticed), but the
sure-fire attention-getter of my arsenal (such as it is) is my Yashica
Mat.  There just aren't a lot of people out there shooting with
anything that looks like a tlr anymore...

;-)

Sounds like you had fun with your cameras, Glenn!

cheers,
frank
-- 
"Sharpness is a bourgeois concept."  -Henri Cartier-Bresson