"so ur a pentax girl eh?"

Hambino · 11-10-2010, 06:56 PM

Sent a picture of the K-r I want/am going to buy and he responded "so ur a pentax girl eh?". I've only had my DSLR since February but when he asked me that I paused for a moment and thought "i sure am!"; I told him "yup, i've fallen in love with the community." As a someone who never really intends to go much further than an intermediate level understanding of photography (its techniques/tools/etc) I probably could have picked up any DSLR and been perfectly content; however, I am so thankful that I randomly picked a used Pentax b/c I cannot imagine other brands have such an amazing community with which to ask questions (really stupid ones sometimes

) and learn from. Guess I just wanted to say "thank you" to all of you who make owning a Pentax such a kick a** experience

I'm a Pentax girl

mel · 11-10-2010, 07:07 PM

Me too! A long time Pentax girl (well probably not so much girl as crone or something). Been shooting one Pentax or another for 28 years or so. So welcome to the Pentax Girls' Club.

Hambino · 11-10-2010, 07:09 PM

Thank you! An awesome "club" to be a part of

systemA · 11-10-2010, 07:17 PM

The world needs more pentax girls!

Hambino · 11-10-2010, 07:58 PM

Agreed!

magkelly · 11-10-2010, 08:33 PM

One more here, though I will confess to a certain growing fondness for Yashica SLR's also. I still wouldn't put my FRI before my SPII, but I still like my FRI a lot. My Spottie is my darling though in terms of the SLR's and I'm really liking my *ist so far too.

Ratmagiclady · 11-10-2010, 09:23 PM

Hide! Or they'll want to make a calendar!

And there I was, expecting to hear some kind of tale of brand-war silliness.

Welcome.

opfor · 11-11-2010, 12:28 AM

To miss use a common phrase; "pics or it didn't happen".......

JACOBY · 11-11-2010, 03:19 AM

Glad to hear you young ladies are here and happy with those Pentax Cameras and this is a great site

Hambino · 11-11-2010, 05:13 AM

Originally posted by Ratmagiclady

Hide! Or they'll want to make a calendar!

maybe we should propose this to the pentax marketing team since they could obviously use some help

Jodokast96 · 11-11-2010, 05:46 AM

Who needs Pentax? We can make a Girls of PentaxForums calender.

bdery · 11-11-2010, 05:53 AM

Calendar discussions aside, to me picking Pentax means being clever, creative, different, and a lucid shopper not influenced my advertizement. And I'm proud of that

Ananta Androscoggin · 11-11-2010, 07:56 AM

Yesterday, after taking pix of the Central Maine Community College's Veteran's Club's ceremonial Flag Raising, I went down to the Graphic Arts department to borrow a card reader so that I could pass the pix files along to our faculty person.

There I'm standing with my 3-weeks-in-hand red K-x dangling around my neck, when one of the students spots it and goes, "Is that the K-x or the K-r? ! ! " Next thing I know, she's digging into her bag, moving things around, while her classmates and professor keep saying, "wait for it. . . " Moments later she presents her 2-weeks old pink K-x camera.

So at least I now know there are two K-x owners in the local area.

Hambino · 11-11-2010, 04:51 PM

^^^ love it! I honestly HATED the color pink until I became an engineer and had all variations of blue/black/gray surrounding me ALL the time lol I feel like I now have to make it a point to be just a little bit girly when I can and the easiest way to do that at work is with the color pink

Ratmagiclady · 11-12-2010, 07:58 PM

Originally posted by Hambino

^^^ love it! I honestly HATED the color pink until I became an engineer and had all variations of blue/black/gray surrounding me ALL the time lol I feel like I now have to make it a point to be just a little bit girly when I can and the easiest way to do that at work is with the color pink

Hee. I was never one for Barbie pink, myself. Hunter green is kind of flashy by my standards.

I think I spent too much time trying to be taken seriously in the 80's to go for colored cameras, anyway.

11-10-2010, 06:56 PM	#1
Hambino Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Japan Photos: Albums Posts: 201	"so ur a pentax girl eh?" Sent a picture of the K-r I want/am going to buy and he responded "so ur a pentax girl eh?". I've only had my DSLR since February but when he asked me that I paused for a moment and thought "i sure am!"; I told him "yup, i've fallen in love with the community." As a someone who never really intends to go much further than an intermediate level understanding of photography (its techniques/tools/etc) I probably could have picked up any DSLR and been perfectly content; however, I am so thankful that I randomly picked a used Pentax b/c I cannot imagine other brands have such an amazing community with which to ask questions (really stupid ones sometimes ) and learn from. Guess I just wanted to say "thank you" to all of you who make owning a Pentax such a kick a** experience I'm a Pentax girl

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11-10-2010, 07:07 PM	#2
mel Veteran Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Virginia Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 2,531	Me too! A long time Pentax girl (well probably not so much girl as crone or something). Been shooting one Pentax or another for 28 years or so. So welcome to the Pentax Girls' Club.

11-10-2010, 07:09 PM	#3
Hambino Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Japan Photos: Albums Posts: 201 Original Poster	Thank you! An awesome "club" to be a part of

11-10-2010, 07:17 PM	#4
systemA Veteran Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: New York, NY Posts: 385	The world needs more pentax girls!

11-10-2010, 07:58 PM	#5
Hambino Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Japan Photos: Albums Posts: 201 Original Poster	Agreed!

11-10-2010, 08:33 PM	#6
magkelly Veteran Member Join Date: May 2010 Photos: Gallery Posts: 5,901	One more here, though I will confess to a certain growing fondness for Yashica SLR's also. I still wouldn't put my FRI before my SPII, but I still like my FRI a lot. My Spottie is my darling though in terms of the SLR's and I'm really liking my *ist so far too.

11-10-2010, 09:23 PM	#7
Ratmagiclady Veteran Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: GA Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 13,563	Hide! Or they'll want to make a calendar! And there I was, expecting to hear some kind of tale of brand-war silliness. Welcome.

11-11-2010, 12:28 AM	#8
opfor Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Oxford, UK Photos: Albums Posts: 276	To miss use a common phrase; "pics or it didn't happen".......

11-11-2010, 03:19 AM	#9
JACOBY Veteran Member Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: PGH PENNA Posts: 340	Glad to hear you young ladies are here and happy with those Pentax Cameras and this is a great site

11-11-2010, 05:13 AM	#10
Hambino Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Japan Photos: Albums Posts: 201 Original Poster	Originally posted by Ratmagiclady Hide! Or they'll want to make a calendar! maybe we should propose this to the pentax marketing team since they could obviously use some help

11-11-2010, 05:46 AM	#11
Jodokast96 Veteran Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Erial, NJ USA Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 2,134	Who needs Pentax? We can make a Girls of PentaxForums calender.

11-11-2010, 05:53 AM	#12
bdery Pentaxian Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Quebec city, Canada Photos: Gallery Posts: 9,362	Calendar discussions aside, to me picking Pentax means being clever, creative, different, and a lucid shopper not influenced my advertizement. And I'm proud of that

11-11-2010, 07:56 AM	#13
Ananta Androscoggin Guest	Yesterday, after taking pix of the Central Maine Community College's Veteran's Club's ceremonial Flag Raising, I went down to the Graphic Arts department to borrow a card reader so that I could pass the pix files along to our faculty person. There I'm standing with my 3-weeks-in-hand red K-x dangling around my neck, when one of the students spots it and goes, "Is that the K-x or the K-r? ! ! " Next thing I know, she's digging into her bag, moving things around, while her classmates and professor keep saying, "wait for it. . . " Moments later she presents her 2-weeks old pink K-x camera. So at least I now know there are two K-x owners in the local area.

11-11-2010, 04:51 PM	#14
Hambino Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Japan Photos: Albums Posts: 201 Original Poster	^^^ love it! I honestly HATED the color pink until I became an engineer and had all variations of blue/black/gray surrounding me ALL the time lol I feel like I now have to make it a point to be just a little bit girly when I can and the easiest way to do that at work is with the color pink

11-12-2010, 07:58 PM	#15
Ratmagiclady Veteran Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: GA Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 13,563	Originally posted by Hambino ^^^ love it! I honestly HATED the color pink until I became an engineer and had all variations of blue/black/gray surrounding me ALL the time lol I feel like I now have to make it a point to be just a little bit girly when I can and the easiest way to do that at work is with the color pink Hee. I was never one for Barbie pink, myself. Hunter green is kind of flashy by my standards. I think I spent too much time trying to be taken seriously in the 80's to go for colored cameras, anyway.