What would you have done?

[kkdanamatt]

Overheard yesterday at Starbucks while sipping my $4.75 Frappaccino:

Young man to young woman (both in their early twenties):


"Yeah, so like my Dad gave me this really cool camera that he used in college, it's like really old and it's like really expensive, like 'way over five thousand dollars, it's so cool and like the lens is really sharp and it even takes pictures with old films."


I slowly turned around to see him holding a Pentax K-1000 with a 50mm f/2.0 SMC lens.

I kept my mouth shut. Why spoil his fantasy?

 

[Dunn]

He was probably trying to impress his lady friend.

 

[t.s.k.]

Like really?
Awesome...

 

[ornate_wrasse]

He was probably trying to impress his lady friend.

Undoubtedly 🙂

 

[LeicaFan]

I wouldn't have been in a Starbucks in the first place, but that's a whole different story. 😀

 

[RanceEric]

He was probably trying to impress his lady friend.

+1 to this..

I honestly think I would have laughed out loud if I turned around and saw that, after hear him say that...

 

[literiter]

Then there is the other course we could take on this subject.

Who among us doesn't think some old cameras are priceless? I happen to think my old, still extant, Spotmatic is worth at least $5000.00.

 

[hipsterdufus]

He was probably leading into the following: "Do you think you could help me test it out? I'd really like to try taking artistic nudes in black & white. You seem like you'd be perfect!"

 

[illuminati_02]

I would have taken a pic to post here with this thread. 🙂

 

[jsrockit]

So, he made a mistake... no big deal. I doubt he did it on purpose. Perhaps he confused it with his dad's MINT black paint M3...

 

[huntjump]

Being in my Mid 20s, I rarely give guys my age or younger the benefit of the doubt. My opinion is this guy was clearly bragging to impress the girl, and he probably knew his audience well enough to know that she knew even less than he did. I would have laughed out loud, and took a photo of him. Swooped in and stole his girl. kidding

 

[jsrockit]

Does lying about how much things cost still impress people? I know a few people who lie about how much their cameras cost... but by stating that they cost less than they actually do. Sometimes it is embarrassing to say that your old school looking camera was $2000-8000 +.

 

[illuminati_02]

Does lying about how much things cost still impress people? I know a few people who lie about how much their cameras cost... but by stating that they cost less than they actually do. Sometimes it is embarrassing to say that your old school looking camera was $2000-8000 +.

I only have to do that with my wife ..... :angel:

"I haven't seen that lens before" "Oh.. yeah, I got it a while ago... it was cheap and I wasn't sure it was any good.. so I have to test it... yeah, that's it"

 

[oftheherd]

He was probably trying to impress his lady friend.

My first thought as well. Cute and funny story no matter. Hipsterdufus may be on to something as well.

"He was probably leading into the following: "Do you think you could help me test it out? I'd really like to try taking artistic nudes in black & white. You seem like you'd be perfect!"

Then again, maybe his father really told him that to impress him or to get him to take better care of the camera. 😛

 

[FrankS]

I only have to do that with my wife ..... :angel:

"I haven't seen that lens before" "Oh.. yeah, I got it a while ago... it was cheap and I wasn't sure it was any good.. so I have to test it... yeah, that's it"

The advantage of buying used gear:

Wife: Is that a new camera?

Me: No, it's old.

 

[sanmich]

I bet the first question after that was:
"Wow, does it take pictures in color too?"

 

[paulfish4570]

i think his dad told him it was worth $5,000 so he'd take care of it ... 🙂

 

[johannielscom]

Overheard yesterday at Starbucks while sipping my $4.75 Frappaccino:

Young man to young woman (both in their early twenties):


"Yeah, so like my Dad gave me this really cool camera that he used in college, it's like really old and it's like really expensive, like 'way over five thousand dollars, it's so cool and like the lens is really sharp and it even takes pictures with old films."


I slowly turned around to see him holding a Pentax K-1000 with a 50mm f/2.0 SMC lens.

I kept my mouth shut. Why spoil his fantasy?

Must be a decimal point error. Maybe he misread. 😛

 

[dave lackey]

After hearing this, "LIKE it's a really...like it even does...like blah blah...", it dawns on me that not even my kids ever used the word "like" as in all the teenage babble. Thank god my grandkids don't either.

So, all you learned photon collectors, educate me on what this kind of language is called these days and by which friggin generation, X, Y, Z, N+1, N(N=1)*2, or what? Back in the days of the OJ Simpson trial, one of the attorneys (I forget his name but he wore a buckskin shirt) wrote a book about how to win an argument everytime and he spoke then of his daughter using "UP" talk which is supposed to be ending every sentence on a high note.😛

Sorry, I can't type it, I can hardly mimic it.🙄

Back to the OP, you did great! I would have probably spoiled the moment for him by grinning like a Cheshire cat....😛

 

[Peter_Jones]

he spoke then of his daughter using "UP" talk which is supposed to be ending every sentence on a high note.

It makes people sound like they're asking a question, or maybe they're a bit simple.