A conversation yesterday

[Adam Maas]

TLR's are a sure attention-getter. I've had a Japanese Tourist try and 
buy my Super Ricohflex off me in the past, and it always gets comments.

-Adam


frank theriault wrote:
> 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