On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 03:50:38PM -0500, Doug Brewer wrote: > Nitin, I really don't know what you are arguing. When I wrote: > > > ANYway... Should you happen to be watching or > > attending some sporting event and glance down into > > the pits or along the sidelines to see someone > > happily shooting away with Pentax equipment, you can > > be proud, because you know that photographer didn't > > have anyone to tell him what equipment to use, and > > had enough self-esteem to not worry about what the > > other photographers out there were using. > > You'll note I didn't mention anything about ratios and percentages, because > that's not what I was talking about. I said, in effect, that a Pentax > shooter =chooses= to shoot Pentax. > > You'll also note that I didn't address the number of shooters there with > other brands, because that's not what I was talking about. I really don't > care what percentage of Nikon/Canon/Olympus/Diana/BarbieCam shooters out > there are shooting what they choose to shoot, becaue I was talking about > Pentax.
And I also note that you are talking about *being proud* because that photog is shooting using pentax by choice. The implication, IMO, you seem to be making here is that nikon/canon shooters are not using their equipment by choice, the pentax user is doing it by choice and that (some X percent) people would pick pentax if the selection was made independent of other's equipment. What is that X percent matter IMO for the be-proud factor to play. So I say again: 1) The nikon/canon shooters might be using their equipment of choice. 2) The pentax user need not be using it by choice 3) How do you know what is the percentage of pentax users among the by-choice shooters ? > > So have we now wasted enough bandwidth on your pissy little lack of reading > comprehension? If you are worried about b-width, perhaps you should write in clearer terms. > > > At 03:13 PM 3/27/02 -0500, you wrote: > >On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 02:10:08PM -0500, Doug Brewer wrote: > > > At 12:55 PM 3/27/02 -0500, Nitin wrote: > > > > > > >small companies ? > > > > > > How small? > > > >small enough perhaps for nikon/canon to not bother with them and they > >have to make their own buys. > > > > > > > > > > > >I personally cannot count ratios or percentages this way. YMMV. > > > > > > You count the whole group. Then count the Pentax shooters. Take the number > > > of Pentax shooters and divide it by the number in the whole group. That > > > will give you the percentage of the whole group that shoots Pentax. You > > can > > > repeat with other brands to get other percentages. > > > >This wont give the ratio of people shooting their gear by choice. > > > > > > > > Guess you're not on a math scholarship, huh? > > > >And I hope you didnt major in communications. > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
