Just back from Holiday

Bumped into this American whilst on holiday and he was going on about the images he had captured with his N***n D300 and he asked me what camera I was using. So I asked him to guess - so he started with Nikon? Canon?
So when I said no, he then asked, Fuji? Sony? Again no, so then he ran out of ideas after Olympus and Panasonic. When I said my camera was a Pentax - his response was, Oh yeah I've heard of them....

and was your shots better than his, thats the main thing,

How old was he? It is not surprising that many younger people have little or no knowledge of Pentax given that not many shops have them on display and there is little national advertising. Older photographers who used film SLRs will remember Pentax as a leading SLR manufacturer.

Archie

He was around 35 going on 13!

Ah that would explain it!

Archie

Welcome back David - that says a whole lot more about the person you met, than it does about any cameras.

LOL. I've just turned 36 (today in fact!) and apart from a Centon camera my parents bought my in my teens, I've only ever shot with Pentax. I started with an Optio 550S, then a K100D, an Optio S, and Optio S3, a K20D and now a K7 and an Optio S7. Most folk look at me as if I'm daft when I tell them I shoot with a Pentax - mainly becuase they've never heard of it and therefore assume its some 'foreign' cheap and inferior brand. Yet they always seem very impressed when they see my shots. I always tell them that if they cut me open I'd be like a stick of rock with "Pentax" written all the way through.

Yet you were trying to make him guess the make of your camera

Scot - I can sympathise with you there. When I joined a photography club where I work, I seemed to get a fair amount of (mostly) joky abuse for being a Pentax user from a couple of Canon users. This hasn't happened for a fair while now, since I've won quite a few of our 'just for fun' monthly competitions and they haven't had any success at all there.