Originally posted by Cynog Ap Brychan Nice idea, but they do give us a nice camera strap with "PENTAX" in big, friendly, red letters on it. I wear mine with pride, as I like to be different from the unknowing herd who, poor things, have never experienced the delights of our brand. But sometimes I think I ought to fit a Canon strap, so my camera doesn't get stolen
Not really... what thief would be stupid enough to steal a Pentax? How on earth is he going to sell it? Unless he doesn't know about cameras, but otherwise he'd be targetting Canon or Nikon. Easy to sell.
Saw a tripod in a big shopping street in Beijing yesterday... camera mounted on top. Noted a red strap. Thought... mh... Pentax?! Got closer, saw that it was a 645D. The owner noticed me staring at the camera in disbelief, then after a moment started to smile. Maybe he saw my red strap... now I can claim the biggest baddest mofo of a camera I saw during my China trip was a Pentax.
Plenty of D300, D600, 5D, ... and also quite a few Sony. Easily more than there are Pentax, Olympus or Panasonic (Olympus and Panasonic are also more common than Pentax...).