Last week in Bernheim Forest, near Torf Xonk, I was wandering around with a
4, a 1n (both w/B&W), and a C*n*n (color) slung about my neck and shoulders.
My pockets were full of lenses. (Pants w/button-up patch pockets:
lowest-tech camera bag this side of grocery bags.) For a while, I'd been
shooting in the same general area where a young family was enjoying the
flowers. They had been very careful to stay out of my line-of-sight as I
was framing a shot. Finally, the man came up and asked me if I was a
magazine photographer; I said, "No, just a photograpy enthusiast." (Wish
I'd had Lex along to spin the guy a real whopper; I wasn't quick enough.)
Everyone else I saw there that day--that is, everyone who even had a
camera--had a P&S.
Danged if I didn't *feel* like a magazine photog.
JP
----- Original Message -----
From: Garth Wood <garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 5:45 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Will I ever learn?
> At 01:30 PM 9/7/2000 -0700, Ken Norton expostulated:
>
> [snip]
>
> >These days with P&S cameras everywhere and worthless
> >digital gizmogobs that only have a 2-meter flash range
> >if you show up with anything SLR that has knobs you
> >are a pro.
>
>
> I experienced this first-hand last year while shooting scenics in the
Okanagan (hic!) Valley in British Columbia with my OM-4 (not even the 4T or
Ti!) using a Manfrotto/[Bogen] tripod. Everyone who saw me asked if I was a
professional doing some kind of a project for a client. I would say "No."
They'd look puzzled, and would then say, "But you've got all this
professional camera gear!"
>
> Garth
>
>
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