Originally posted by summonbaka Maybe it's just me but I find a little strange to go talk to a stranger.
Please someone explain this to me because i don't get it.
So... you have never received a sincere face-to-face compliment from a stranger? And if you did, did your mother not teach you to acknowledge it with a "Thank you"?
Anything 'wrong' with saying "Nice camera" when you find yourself standing beside someone shooting the same subject with a Pentax? Plus, when you get the compliment and you notice they are shooting a lens you have never see before and from an aspect you did not consider, would you not ask about it?
Perhaps not where you live, but in America, responding with some lite small talk is simply being polite.
What's not to get in that?
Cheers...