Why so many men, so few women?

[michael]

I get the strong impression that (almost?) everyone here is male. Now why is that? Why are so many of us men? Or, to put it the other way around, why are so few of us women? I'd love to hear your ideas about this.

Thanks. michael

 

[Kris]

Because men loves to photograph women and women loves seeing how beautiful they actually are in the photos.

😀

 

[sljm]

Yeap i second that, i have been trying to get my girlfriend to take up photography but she says she prefers to be in the photo

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[Sonnar Brian]

Even though Nikki has used the Retina IIIS I am afraid she prefers playhousedisney.com to rangefinderforum.com. It's hard to compete with the Flying Koala Brothers dropping packages from their Bi-Plane on animals in Australia.

 

[rovnguy]

In my experience, most women do not enjoy tinkering around with the mechanical marvels that rangefinder cameras are. They want it done easily and as automatically as possible. My sister is one of the exceptions, however she just discovered the old Mamiya-Sekor 1000 DTL that I left at her place. In another year or so she'll be ready for a Canon or Olympus rangefinder.

 

[Kris]

she says she prefers to be in the photo

Lucky you! None of my previous gfs liked to be my model and they always hit me on the head if I pointed my camera at other pretty girls!

🙄 😀

 

[Peter]

My wife likes to use a digital camera. She complained that my R2 is filled with incomprehensible dials and levers! 🙁

 

[nwcanonman]

My wife rarely like to use a camera - UNTIL, I got her the digital P&S. Now that she doesn't feel like she's "wasting film", she shoots more often and is improving. She wants nothing to do with Manual/RF/SLR cameras.
Most camera specific camera elist I've been on are predominatly male. I think women prefer taking about photography, but not so much about the equipment used to do it. Guys, in general, are more tool/gadget oriented. 🙂

 

[Oldprof]

... Guys, in general, are more tool/gadget oriented ...

That's it in a nutshell. My wife has a little point-and-shoot camera and takes good pictures with it. She is interested in composition because she wants to take pictures that are visually interesting, but she couldn't care less about the technical specifications of the equipment. She knows absolutely nothing about f-stops and shutter speeds. She just wants the pictures. Too many men obsess over the equipment and neglect making photographs.

 

[back alley]

...and they always hit me on the head if I pointed my camera at other pretty girls!

now that explains alot about kris, i think!😉

joe

 

[peter_n]

Welcome to the forum, sljm!! 😀

My wife isn't remotely interested in digital (yet) and has a Canon film P&S that is... OK (lens isn't so hot). She has no interest in my camera whatsoever.

On the other hand both my daughters enjoy taking pictures, so who knows? One is into digital and the other uses a Nikon FM, an excellent camera. None of them are interested in joining this or any other photo forum.

 

[rover]

Women like doing stuff and men like talking about it, even if we don't do it?

Really though, there are some female contributors to our forum, they just aren't as loud as the rest of us.

And my wife hates being infront of the camera. She has issues, it is really bad.

 

[Rob]

They are not mechanical geeks like us. They are after the final image not the latest gizmo like us. My girlfriend shoots and has
won several photo competitions in the local photoclub.
Hand her an all mechanical camera without a meter and game over.
She is dependent on her EOS 3 on automatic to get the job done.
But she can visualize what she wants better than I can and does
get some good shots so she would never change to a RF.
She has looked thru mine before and then put them gently
back on the shelf...

 

[Stu :)]

From my noted experiances at my university's photography department....

Guys like to talk about the kit.
Girls like to talk about the photographers.

Guys like to talk how the photograph was made.
Girls like to talk what the photograph is.

Stu 🙂

 

[FrankS]

maybe half of us are women, and we're just using male noms de plume.

 

[AndColor]

guys...watch out...you're going to have trouble talking with your feet in your mouth. like the taste of nike?

lh (a leica lady)

 

[rover]

This is bad guys, AndColor called us out and we went and hid like she is mom.

We do pretty well when left alone, but I think we would all agree that having a women's opinion around here more often would offer even more diversity, "and color" to our community.

 

[Kris]

I'm wondering why people are saying that women like to gossip or talk on the phone for hours with her female friends.

This forum is a solid evidence that show the truth is in fact the other way around.

😀

 

[michael]

Worse, some research shows that (at least high school and university) women talk about other people's problems, but (high school and university) men talk about their own.

I've been having this problem with my (photos / camera / lumbago---choose one) lately...

but back to the original thread: Simon Baron-Cohen has written a book about masculine brains vs feminine brains. He says---trust him, he's a scientist---that men's intelligence is calibrated to systems (e.g. engines, cameras, armies, etc.) and women's to relationships. But of course if men are so poor at relationships then it stands to reason that they've got to get together and talk about it, pool their slender resources. Gossip as necessary therapy for the challenged.

 

[rover]

If we're that technical we would be extinct. Actually, it sounds like digital photography. What did you set your white balance for today? Do you really think Simon knows what a woman's brain is calibrated for.🙂