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[hiorgos]

Hi,

Are there any girls in this forum?

Just barely new here. But i wonder if there are any girls on this forum, or this is some kind of private male club..

just kidding but, is rangefinder ok for girls? Or they just don't care about the buttons, the technical and the alignment, and prefer the esasy going of digi compacts? (Which means that they focus on actually taking pictures and not on talking about the gear)

Why are we so fascinated with the (beautiful 😎 ) machinery?
Why girls don't care about it?

Cheers

 

[georgef]

Hey are you the guy who posted on the SFF (shoefinderforum) asking if there are any guys there and what the deal is with all the heel discussions? he he

 

[Roger Hicks]

Well, my wife Frances Schultz uses rangefinders all the time -- there's lots of her work on our website -- but like many women she regards forums are pretty much a waste of time.

Cheers,

Roger

 

[Pablito]

Well, my wife Frances Schultz uses rangefinders all the time -- there's lots of her work on our website -- but like many women she regards forums are pretty much a waste of time.

Cheers,

Roger

A wise woman.

 

[williams473]

My mentor (who is female) has done a lot of her best work on regular old SLR cameras that aren't very pretty and are all beat up from galavanting around the world with her. I think men are more inclined to admire their cameras (as we tend to do with cars, tools etc.) wheras the feminine perspective is more interested in expression and, and less about what they used to express it.

But to answer your question, no, this is pretty much a sausage-fest.

 

[pesphoto]

There have been a few, but most dont seem to hang around too long unfortunately.

 

[feenej]

My wife and daughter (16) seem to be completely incapable of focusing a rangefinder camera no matter how many times I explain it to them. My son on the other hand, got it first try when he was 12.

 

[Rhoyle]

There was a poll awhile back asking what the percentage was of men to women.

 

[Chris101]

As far as I can tell, RFF is special in not having any females as regulars among the fora I visit. Maybe that's because the image is not the main thing here, but rather the camera.

My photo teacher is female, and I find it interesting that she borrows or rents cameras as needed, rather than owning them. Oh, she does have a camera, but it's a Crown Graphic that someone gave her.

 

[feenej]

Last check there were about 4% women here, but I think it got up to 6% at one time.

 

[hiorgos]

I think i will be fine here.. Living with my girlfriend and with my friends far away it will be nice to have some manly chat about exposure compensation and lens sharpness.. 😉

 

[feenej]

Hey, I just gave my 10 year-old daughter a brief lesson, and she got rangefinder focusing down on the first try too!

 

[Livesteamer]

Not long back I read how little boys have teddy bears and as they get older the teddy bears get traded up for bicycles, cars and fancy cameras. Does this make my favorite old M3 a replacement teddy bear?
Joe