A new Recruit to the Pentax fold !

Today I recruited another to the Pentax family, my friend I recruited in 1993 to the Brentwood Photographic Club, Bart Kent ( aged 82) - well, he first got a Canon EOS 1000F then got into still-life and I told him he needed a prime lens such as the 100mm f4 Pentax-M macro as I was doing all his colour printing and I could see the effects the Canon zoom lens was giving on his prints, so he got a Pentax P30 and the 100mm macro from Jessops and immediately started winning at the club-now he wanted a digital and bought a small Fuji Finepix from the widow of a fellow Sailor who died and was a club member, but made so many mistakes. He then saw my PENTAX K10D and fell for it- he made some dosh selling his wife's wheel chair as she has just died and got £50 on the Premium Bonds so bought a K10D. I have been going through it with him today- now all he needs is a COMPUTER and he can join this site !

Well done Peter!

So far I have enlightened at least 5 people, including my oldest brother (K100D), three attendees to workshops (K100Ds and K10D) and my friend Martin (K10D). At the workshops I try not to be too pro-pentax, but it is hard. Hopefully I do it fairly tongue-in-cheek at least.

Dan

I take it his wife died of natural causes?

Quite a few people at the club have now gone the Pentax/Samsung route, and they are getting great results.

Now I just have to convert all the Canon users. I don't mind Nikon so much...

Pete you should sell him your old dinosaur and upgrade

I just had Bart round again today with his K10D for another 'workshop' on digital ( a case of the Blind leading the Blind really!) and he joked he would probably DIE before he finishes reading the instruction book ! ( Well, I read it every tea-break and toilet break for a month )

Last weekend I went on a geology field trip. The other people carrying Big Cameras, were using kanikons. They have decided to use my photographs for the write-up. I told them they had bought photocopiers!

Ammonyte: I was the photographer for the Geology Dept. at University College London for 8 years and when I arrived the 'camera' was a half plate Gandolfi with an Anastigmat lens. When they wanted slides in colour for the lectures I showed the boss how I could do colour slides with my Pentax S3 and they shelled out some dosh and I got a Pentax S1 for the department and a 50mm Macro-Takumar, so another recruit! ( Wonder what they use NOW as I left in 1970)

Probably the same - geologists don't like new things - it has to be millions of years old before they get excited!