there one time, and old couple, i mean i will not say old cos they are around my parent age. he was taking shot in the forest, a MA mirco lens. i can say it is a goog MA mirco lens, i forget what brand.
of cos my setup up was like kit lens and my body, walking around. after a normal greeting, is like " how is your shot?". we started chatting. part of his chat was how good pentax 10D camera is a "pro camera" and it is the top DG range, of cos i kept silence. kept comparing. till i got quite irritated. so i ask him, "so what is cannon Ds M111, nikon d3.... are you telling me that they are not pro body?'. and there is when he gone silence.
then i ask him. why choice pentax over other brand? he say is becase of the good lens he is having. i answer him, "yar, true, but that is not the way, if u think that lens is dam good, go for film and not DG cam, and when u want to change body, u will get irritated on what to keep and not."
is till i fix up my giant lens to take some fishs coming off the surface, then he gave me the "ok you win,u are more exp then me, listen to you" look. at least, the end i share know from the book to him, and thankful to me. and offer to sent me home. this time with no broken body and etc.
...you seem too puffed up for your own good, and i have no idea what the heck that part in red means..
neither does the part in green prove anything about your worth as a photographer. i only know that i take pride in my equipment, and i usually never let anyone else handle it unless they are clearly able to handle it, and even if they aren't i make sure i hang on to it tightly. it may be anal, but HEY, at least i know that i'm unable to deal with them getting it spoilt.
can you? would you? honestly.. no offense meant, but YOU, and YOU alone have yourself to blame. it is a chain of events.. where you overly trust other people's ability. the cause starts from you. appropriating costs or not, he may have been negligent in handling the camera.. but at the end of the day, without you asking him to handle it, NOTHING would have happened if you had cared enough about your equipment in the first place.
it seems to me, that this could all have been avoided. and why are you drumming on it for so long? if you want him to pay,
ask him to pay. if he disagrees, and you disagree with it,
do something about it. what do you achieve by harping on it for.. what, 4 pages plus?
move on. there are better things to do in life than to quibble over what, $280. it may be a substantial sum, but i'm sure you can more than handle it if you're into photography in the first place.
in any case, this is an internet forums, we can say whatever we want. from what i see, you are highly insensitive.. in the post above you describe a situation (if it is indeed true at all) whereby you basically show disrespect for older people (around your parents' age, i see you realise that).. as well as users from another group - which yes, happens to be mine, too bad.
it also irks me that you are beating around the bush too much, it does seem very fishy to me, and i'm sure others would agree, since you keep hinting at this and that, revealing little itsy bitsy pieces of information like.. his age, the fact that he shoots butterflies..
coming from a newly registered user.. and seeing how this has all happened before, i won't be surprised if this was all some smoke and mirrors to throw a spanner into someone's works. but perhaps i think too much.
if you don't want to read all that, then i'll summarise it. MOVE ON. cheers.
