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It is a fully automatic high quality digital camera. Like other Sony products, this camera is also designed with to deliver best quality and performance. You can shoot great pictures like professional even if you are a novice. Does anyone else ever get sick of how the public assumes good camera = great images and it has nothing to do with the person knowing how to use the camera? 90% of the time when someone looks at my images their first comment is "Wow, that's a great camera". I actually use fairly crappy ones and many of them are over 50 years old. And people constantly ask me for advice on what new camera to get to do a certain thing like product photography, ignoring the fact they have no clue about lighting etc etc etc. Then they get insulted if you try to explain to them that unless they take some classes or study the subject, a new camera isn't going to fix their problem they have with their present camera. I know I could take nice shots with the gear they are using now as going from 5MP to 12MP one isn't going to fix glare off glass, poor contrast from bad lighting, awful clutter in the background and other problems they have. Maybe advertising like the above has convinced people they just need to buy a great camera and not knowing anything about photography isn't an issue? Stephey |
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Maybe advertising like the above has convinced people they just need to buy a great camera and not knowing anything about photography isn't an issue? What do you mean "maybe"? :-) Advertising exists for the sole purpose of selling something -- regardless of anything else, including morality. People are suckers for glitz as well as for the latest and greatest -- and the advertisers know that. (And I won't go into my rant about how a computer geek can Photoshop his or her way out of a disaster, noting your "not knowing anything about photography.") *sigh* I do love my Provia. |
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wrote in message ... Someone spammed saying. It is a fully automatic high quality digital camera. Like other Sony products, this camera is also designed with to deliver best quality and performance. You can shoot great pictures like professional even if you are a novice. Does anyone else ever get sick of how the public assumes good camera = great images and it has nothing to do with the person knowing how to use the camera? 90% of the time when someone looks at my images their first comment is "Wow, that's a great camera". I actually use fairly crappy ones and many of them are over 50 years old. And people constantly ask me for advice on what new camera to get to do a certain thing like product photography, ignoring the fact they have no clue about lighting etc etc etc. Then they get insulted if you try to explain to them that unless they take some classes or study the subject, a new camera isn't going to fix their problem they have with their present camera. I know I could take nice shots with the gear they are using now as going from 5MP to 12MP one isn't going to fix glare off glass, poor contrast from bad lighting, awful clutter in the background and other problems they have. Maybe advertising like the above has convinced people they just need to buy a great camera and not knowing anything about photography isn't an issue? Stephey My favorite analogy is after eating a delicious meal, you say to the cook, "That was great! You must really have some good pots and pans!" There is a poem, I think the title is something like 'The touch of a master's hand'. The storyline of the poem is an auctioner is trying to sell an old violin. He starts the bidding at $100 and goes down. When he gets down to five dollars or so, someone steps forward, picks up the old violin and starts to play it. After playing it beautifully, the auctioneer starts the bidding again, at $1000 and goes up. It's not how good the camera is, it's the skill of the person behind the viewfinder. |
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wrote in message ... Someone spammed saying. It is a fully automatic high quality digital camera. Like other Sony products, this camera is also designed with to deliver best quality and performance. You can shoot great pictures like professional even if you are a novice. Does anyone else ever get sick of how the public assumes good camera = great images and it has nothing to do with the person knowing how to use the camera? 90% of the time when someone looks at my images their first comment is "Wow, that's a great camera". I actually use fairly crappy ones and many of them are over 50 years old. /snip - follow the thread/ ******** Hey don't knock digital. If not for digital, the great mob of common folks would not have the kind of images they have. And a good 80-90% percent of the time, those images are not bad at all. Have you at any - any - kind of large public gathering looked around and seen the number of camera toting folks? There is a small fortune in photo hardware around you, be it a parade, a stage presentation, even a place like Glacier Point or the Grand Canyon. And don't forget the classic retort when your neighbor/friend/relative foists upon you that well exposed, well focused (but not well composed) picture saying something to the effect "Isn't this a great picture?" - "Yes, this is a very well exposed and well focused picture. It's as good as well exposed and well focused as the pictures my four year old grandson takes with his digital camera." Dunno about you, but I can well remember when the best chance any four year old had of taking a decent well focused and well exposed image was with a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye using Verichrome Pan. And even at that, those images were nowhere as well focused and well exposed as those from even a 1.3 megapixel digital. By the way - those older digitals make wonderful gifts for the young ones. And they are inexpensive as can be on EBay and Shopgoodwill.com. Now that having been said, for "serious" stuff nothing - nothing - beats the look and feel of a good, well processed silver gelatin print. I understand that if I am willing to pay lots, I can get a digital print with a look and feel similar to a traditional silver gelatin print. But why pay more for something "similar" when I can get what I want for much, much less? |
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On 12/31/2010 2:08 PM, Lawrence T. Akutagawa wrote:
wrote in message ... Someone spammed saying. It is a fully automatic high quality digital camera. Like other Sony products, this camera is also designed with to deliver best quality and performance. You can shoot great pictures like professional even if you are a novice. Does anyone else ever get sick of how the public assumes good camera = great images and it has nothing to do with the person knowing how to use the camera? 90% of the time when someone looks at my images their first comment is "Wow, that's a great camera". I actually use fairly crappy ones and many of them are over 50 years old. /snip - follow the thread/ ******** Hey don't knock digital. /snip I wasn't specifically talking/knocking digital. This has been happening for decades, long before digital came out. I guess this just stuck a cord with me after trying to explain to an folk artist friend of mine that buying a new camera wasn't going to magically get her magazine/catalog quality product shots. Stephe |
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On 1/9/2011 6:35 PM, Alan Browne wrote:
But in the end, why should it offend you so much? Really, you have your photographic goals so go ahead and focus on that. One area though where I notice nobody assigning equipment to the result is cooking: When you make something delicious nobody ever mentions the stove, the cookware or such, it's simply "Wow, that was great! Can I have the recipe?" Offended isn't my reaction, it's more just irritating. If they asked "how did you take that", that would be a question I could answer that would help them improve their photographic skills. Just like your recipe example does. When people present a photographic problem to me involving special lighting etc, they FOCUS on what sort of camera to buy instead. They refuse to believe that possibly they already have the right gear, they just need to learn a technique to solve their problem. -That- is irritating trying to explain that some new fancy camera is going to result in nothing more that wasted money. Stephe |
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On 1/10/2011 7:29 PM, Alan Browne wrote:
On 2011.01.10 12:28 , wrote: On 1/9/2011 6:35 PM, Alan Browne wrote: But in the end, why should it offend you so much? Really, you have your photographic goals so go ahead and focus on that. One area though where I notice nobody assigning equipment to the result is cooking: When you make something delicious nobody ever mentions the stove, the cookware or such, it's simply "Wow, that was great! Can I have the recipe?" Offended isn't my reaction, it's more just irritating. If they asked Irritated, offended, whatever. Wasted emotion? There is quite a difference between offended and irritated. I'm not taking it personally if I am irritated. I want to help them but I can't. I sure don't get upset, it's just frustrating trying to help someone who has been brainwashed by advertising into thinking it's ALL what camera you own. Actually you can see this very thing with some of the 'accomplished' photographers when reading these forums, especially the Dslr ones. Unless you own brand X model Y with Z lens, you can't possibly get decent results. Stephey |
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