---- Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: > I was in a shoe shop today, looking at shoes (surprise, surprise). I had my > M8 hanging from my shoulder. After staring disconsolately at the footwear on > offer I heard somebody muttering something in my ear. It was a shop > assistant. > > "Is that old thing an SLR or a rangefinder?"
There's a clue as to the quality of conversation you are about to have. > "It's a rangefinder" > "Does it still work?", he said, laughing. He was really taking the piss out > of the camera. > "What do you mean?" > "In this digital day and age! Does manual film still work?" > "It's digital" > "Digital? That?! It likes a really old thing. Is it a Rioch (sic)?" > "A what?" > "A Rioch" > "No, it's a Leica" > "Man! That looks so old!" > > I can't imagine how he expected to get a sale out of me after that, even if > they'd had any shoes I wanted to buy. > > Just to keep it on topic, as I was walking away shaking my head in disbelief > I heard him tell one of his colleagues that he had a Pentax K1000. You should have asked him about the new "autowalk" shoes with rare-earth antigravity magnets. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
