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Any other pro photographers here use Pentax?

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Not my primary employment but shot several weddings and some other projects last year including having images published. I do not do sports photography and if I did I would have to move to another system. For what I do, Pentax rocks and always has. Shooting Pentax since 1972.

Be well,

AZ
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'There is an art, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw
yourself at the ground and miss.'Douglas Adams'



Its a start: http://www.pbase.com/frumsimchasphoto
 
PentaxWorld said:
I guess the purpose of you replying is to get attention of people
to your cow pic and also the link in your signature then...

As in the thread on Benjamin got banned, some said there are many
other pro photographers got banned and left the forum as well, so I
was wondering who are the pro photographers here in Pentax SLR
forum :)

You have your right to believe what you believe in...and reply
again with your cow and link in your signature ;)

Koh Kho King

http://www.*******.com
the world of Pentax users!
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You mined e-mail address from this site to "invite" people to your new Pentax forum when you yourself do not even use Pentax gear? You must be doing it to help all of the Pentax users out there. That or you want people to go to your retail site http://sh*****ki.com .

Very transparent.
 
During my initial setup of PW, I emailed only those who willing to have their email address shown to the public and allow members to contact them. I only invite people once (some being accidentally duplicated). Some members got angry with the emails, so I no longer send email invite to people since long.

I do not promote PW directly here in dpreview, but can't I still put my website in my signature? If so, then all members with website links in their signature should all be removed?

Check my initial post, did I not ask a valid question?
Steveo T said:
You mined e-mail address from this site to "invite" people to your
new Pentax forum when you yourself do not even use Pentax gear?
You must be doing it to help all of the Pentax users out there.
That or you want people to go to your retail site
http://sh*****ki.com .

Very transparent.
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Koh Kho King

http://www.PentaxWorld.com
the world of Pentax users!
 
Oy, give a guy a break! This forum is becoming more and more foul-tempered. Hardly worth bothering about anymore they way people jump all over each other. I for one was interested in the answers to this question, but sadly like so many threads here, it looks like this too will devolve into a meaningless shouting match about past wrongs.

Please, for the love of humanity, just try being nice once in awhile. See? It doesn't hurt!

I use a camera professionally (though that's far from all I do at work) but it's not a Pentax. Personally I'm looking to buy a K10D and if I like it enough, I may recommend it or the K1D or whatever comes out this year for work use.

Damon
http://electro.aminus3.com
 
PentaxWorld said:
During my initial setup of PW, I emailed only those who willing to
have their email address shown to the public and allow members to
contact them. I only invite people once (some being accidentally
duplicated). Some members got angry with the emails, so I no longer
send email invite to people since long.

I do not promote PW directly here in dpreview, but can't I still
put my website in my signature? If so, then all members with
website links in their signature should all be removed?

Check my initial post, did I not ask a valid question?
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Yes the question is valid, but may I ask why do you ask? You do not use Pentax gear, so then what is your in Pentax? Why not Nikon? Oh that is right, NikonWorld.com is already taken...
 
sezme said:
Oy, give a guy a break! This forum is becoming more and more
foul-tempered. Hardly worth bothering about anymore they way people
jump all over each other. I for one was interested in the answers
to this question, but sadly like so many threads here, it looks
like this too will devolve into a meaningless shouting match about
past wrongs.

Please, for the love of humanity, just try being nice once in
awhile. See? It doesn't hurt!
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You must not have recieved his unsolicited "invitation" e-mail, I did and had to change/hide my e-mail address at this site. I wanted to keep it public but I cannot. I have no use for spammers.
 
Why does it bother you so much that he has a website called PentaxWorld? God get over it. This used to be a fun place to learn about photography and Pentax. Now we need to answer why we posted a question. Room over at Pentax world for a new member. I'm outta here!
 
sezme said:
This forum is becoming more and more
foul-tempered.
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Interesting insight from someone with 15 Pentax posts on his account.
sezme said:
Hardly worth bothering about anymore
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That's right. I'll be bothered again if the next dude harvests emails. Bad style, bad promotion, IMO. But hey, I'm not bothered anymore.

Jens

--

'Well, 'Zooming with your feet' is usually a stupid thing as zoom rings are designed for hands.' (Me, 2006)
http://www.jensroesner.de/
--=! Condemning proprietary batteries since 1976 !=--
 
Ginslinger said:
This used to be a fun place to learn
about photography and Pentax.
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This used to be a fun place without people harvesting emails and using them for whatever.
Ginslinger said:
a question. Room over at Pentax world for a new member. I'm outta
here!
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It was fun while it lasted. Great to have had you on board for -umm- 27 messages?

--

'Well, 'Zooming with your feet' is usually a stupid thing as zoom rings are designed for hands.' (Me, 2006)
http://www.jensroesner.de/
--=! Condemning proprietary batteries since 1976 !=--
 
I make a living off photojournalism, second is private events/weddings, 3rd is printing pics, 4th is odd side cash jobs for beer money :)

But overall yes, I am about 75% dependant on my Pentax cameras to help bring in the income, 20% on computers, 5% on cash-4-beer :)
if you wish I will post the link again to my best of 06 stuff.
BrendanPK
--
K10D+LBA=no$$$ but happy
 
Ginslinger said:
Why does it bother you so much that he has a website called
PentaxWorld? God get over it.
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I don't care what his web site is called. What angers me is the way he sent spam to e-mail addresses he took from this site. If you read the thread you would probably be able to figure that out.
Ginslinger said:
This used to be a fun place to learn
about photography and Pentax. Now we need to answer why we posted
a question.
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You don't have to answer anything or answer to anybody, as long as you follow the rules and don't mine e-mail address from this site for spam advertising.
Ginslinger said:
Room over at Pentax world for a new member. I'm outta here!
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Good bye. Enjoy your new forum. I've lurked there for a while and I am unimpressed.
 
Rupert60 said:
You may have to do better than that for the IRS. LOL
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Back to the topic at hand...

Actually, the IRS wouldn't mind at all. Officially, you have to show an INTENT to make a profit for three out of five years in the USA. Most years, I do not make a profit, particularly when I deduct mileage at 44.5 cents per mile for travel to and from photoshoots locations. And I tend to take pictures in a lot of places. :-) I try to show a profit by earning income and residuals from my stock photography.

So yes, I have a photgraphy business as defined by the IRS. Woudl I consider myself a working professional? No, because that is neither my sole nor primary source of income. But I AM an entrepenuer with a small sideline photo business and deduct expenses and equipment as appropriate.

David
 
Steveo T said:
Ginslinger said:
Why does it bother you so much that he has a website called
PentaxWorld? God get over it.
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I don't care what his web site is called. What angers me is the
way he sent spam to e-mail addresses he took from this site.
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Let me add a "me too" to this. It annoyed me so much I made a complaint to "Uncle Phil" about it , though I didn't make any public complaint in the forum. No action was taken so I presumed that nobody else was upset by it; it's quite good to see I wasn't the only one who found the behaviour of Mr KKK to be totally unacceptable.
Steveo T said:
Good bye. Enjoy your new forum. I've lurked there for a while and
I am unimpressed.
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I'll take your word for it, I didn't bother after one day of it.

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John Bean [GMT - is there any other?]

PAW 2007 Week 4:
http://waterfoot.smugmug.com/gallery/2321711/1/126017178/Large



Index page: http://waterfoot.smugmug.com
Latest walkabout (4 April 2006): http://waterfoot.smugmug.com/gallery/1348582
 
Steveo T said:
I don't care what his web site is called. What angers me is the
way he sent spam to e-mail addresses he took from this site. If
you read the thread you would probably be able to figure that out.
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I'm always curious as to what gets people so upset about this type of spam. I assume you're also banning all of the retailers, politicians and charitable organizations that send you junk post mail? I mean, they killed an actual tree to spam your post mailbox, and you actually had to get up from your computer to walk to your mailbox to retrive it! That must have REALLY pi$$ed you off! But fortunately here on the internet we can choose to not publish, share or disclose our email addresses if you're so inclined to get so upset recieving an email from someone wanting to share a resource with you.


Chris
http://www.imagineimagery.com
 
ChrisDM said:
But
fortunately here on the internet we can choose to not publish,
share or disclose our email addresses if you're so inclined to get
so upset recieving an email from someone wanting to share a
resource with you.
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"Share a resource with you"? Good grief, I get hundreds of spam a day wanting to "sharing a resource" with me. It's spam, no matter what you want to call it. I dislike - no, hate - spam. I will continue to complain about it, whether my complaint has any affect or not.

The end never justifies the means. Spam is bad - no matter what "resource" the spammer wishes to "share" with me. Consider this: why did Mr KKK choose to spam all the users of this forum (with public addresses) by email to promote his new forum rather than just posting a single announcement in this forum?

--
John Bean [GMT - is there any other?]

PAW 2007 Week 4:
http://waterfoot.smugmug.com/gallery/2321711/1/126017178/Large



Index page: http://waterfoot.smugmug.com
Latest walkabout (4 April 2006): http://waterfoot.smugmug.com/gallery/1348582
 
Chris,
ChrisDM said:
ChrisDM said:
I don't care what his web site is called. What angers me is the
way he sent spam to e-mail addresses he took from this site. If
you read the thread you would probably be able to figure that out.
Click to expand...
I'm always curious as to what gets people so upset about this type
of spam. I assume you're also banning all of the retailers,
politicians and charitable organizations that send you junk post
mail?
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That is merely an un-personalized nuisance. No personal data-hogging behind the scenes.
ChrisDM said:
I mean, they killed an actual tree to spam your post mailbox,
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Yep, you can rest assured that I don't like it. But what would you do? Complain by letter and use another tree? Or by email and give them another address they can exploit. Hm...
ChrisDM said:
and you actually had to get up from your computer to walk to your
mailbox to retrive it! That must have REALLY pi$$ed you off!
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Actually, I find walking not too bad.
ChrisDM said:
But
fortunately here on the internet we can choose to not publish,
share or disclose our email addresses
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And if we share, it is to be able for forum members to contact one another. Not for someone to exploit it.
ChrisDM said:
if you're so inclined to get
so upset recieving an email from someone wanting to share a
resource with you.
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Address mining is bad. What one might think of as good intentions is a privacy threat to someone else.

Jens

--

'Well, 'Zooming with your feet' is usually a stupid thing as zoom rings are designed for hands.' (Me, 2006)
http://www.jensroesner.de/
--=! Condemning proprietary batteries since 1976 !=--
 
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