Originally posted by artobest Javier, no offence - your wife is lovely - but these photos belong on Flickr. I thought the thread was intended to showcase outstanding examples of film photography, but it is in danger of turning into an album of family snaps.
With that, and the whole Pumalite business, and the multiple repostings, the thread has kind of outlived its usefulness, IMHO.
Originally posted by jgredline
Sorry for offending you that way. I just removed all of my family snaps...
Javier, considering what you first wrote in that edited post, something like "she would kill me if she know that I posted these here...", are you sure that she hasn't registered at Pentax forum with the username
artobest?
By the way, I'm missing your familly snaps. I was beginning to think that I might put some of my own familly albums in the flat bed scanner...
Hoping that my own pics of my youngest daughter does not offend anyone. Besides the technical point that I'm not making any familly albums any longer, familly snaps are the most important photos:
1) These are the photos I will all look at 20 years from now and remember when I had hair on my head and the kids were kids and I were near the centre of their universe.
2) Familly snappers are those who will buy 20 K-m and 10 K200D for every K20D we are buying so that Pentax can afford to make a K30D, K1D and a 645D.
So artobest, get down from your high horses and stop looking down at familly snaps.
Besides, it is sort of interresting to see how the typical familly snap have changed.
Now we shoot enourmous amounts of digital familly snaps of which the majority spend their existence on a hard disk where mainly only the photographer look at them. Pictures are of fantastic quality on the pixel level, but other qualities have not improved.
Then we made familly albums with paper copies that we all looked in and laughed at during familly events or with visiting friends, or we tortured each other and our famillys with hour long dia slide shows...yet in those not so perfect (on the pixel level) familly snaps I still see a certain film quality that I miss. And I suspect that the 20th century film and paper copies will outlive most of the digital images of the 21st century.