This weekend I went on a short trip to a nearby town, which was hampacked with other tourists... sigh. Oh, well, I thought. There were lot of cameras, the usual suspects, Canons, Nikons, I saw 1 Sony a7 and a surprising number of Lumix bridge, superzoom cameras! And mobile phones, of course. Everywhere, from the people who just snapped pictures, the selfie stick couple trying to get in frame a huge Gothic cathedral in the sun while being in the shadows (HDR working hard!) to the candid elder taking pictures of the very same Gothic cathedral ceilings with his phone flash or recording video with the flash on (let me tell you, they were at least 35m high!). Sigh. Anyway, we went for lunch to a reservation-first, crowded place and while we were waiting for our table to be ready, we thought of asking for a wine. On the bar, there was a couple, and the young woman tells me (translated, hard to fish the slang equivalents from Spanish, but, well you get the gist): (dramatized):
Pointing to my K-3, sporting the 18-135mm WR
She: Well, that's an impressive piece of machinery!
Me: Well, it's just an old camera...
She: I'm a photographer, I have a Canon, and I can see that's a blast of a machine! ("un maquinón" in the original Spanish)
Me: Well, it certainly serves me well... It's capable of more than I am, so it's great for me to learn.
She: No kidding...
The floor master comes looking for us.
He: Your table is ready...
Me: Alright, nice to meet you. Bye.
She: Bye...
That was really funny. "I have a Canon" as an authority card is certainly novel, especially since she never told me which one! "I have a Canon 1Dx mark II" gives some perspective, right? Right? :-D
And then
un maquinón... LMAO
It's clear, folks: Pentax K-3 still rocking sexy in 2019! :-)