Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Bray" <tb...@textuality.com>
Subject: Re: What gear is on your "short list"? ?Let me spin this another way: The limiting factor in the quality of
the pictures I take is not the quality of the camera I take them with.
However, quite likely some combination of longer lenses and faster lenses/senses would allow me to take some pictures that at the moment I just can't take.
Obviously, longer &/or faster lenses are not necessarily better.
- Tim
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Bob W <p...@web-options.com> wrote:
my cooking improved enormously when I bought decent potsAfter the meal, ask the chef what brand of pots were used because it tasted great... On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 2:12 AM, Boris Liberman <bori...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 1/27/2011 7:03 PM, Steven Desjardins wrote: >> >> My real objection is generalizations like "equipment doesn't matter". >> For some shots it doesn't matter and for some it does. My opinion is >> that for a great majority it does make a difference. Better equipment >> is far less likely to be inappropriate for a particular photographic >> situation than lousy equipment. > > Steven, I am thinking of the following /almost/ real life situations: > > 1. Somebody talking to Picasso - "Maestro, your brushes have most wonderful > strokes in them". > > 2. Someone talking to Ferdinand Porsche - "Sir, the steering wheel of your > cars is so round, I cannot help but drive faster". > > 3. Someone talking to (well choose whatever haut couture grand master you > wish) - "Your needles make so wonderfully beautiful clothes"... > > I hope you catch my drift, Steve. > > Equipment, IMO (not so humble) does matter only if the one who uses it knows > exactly what they are doing. I cannot draw like Picasso or drive like well > known Stig or even cook like chief Ramsey no matter what canvas or race > track or kitchen you would put in front of me. Now, it will take great deal > of self-understanding and self-honesty to realize and admit that there is a > limit to the gear one is going to use to one's benefit whereas above that > limit it won't be for the quality of the outcome, but for other reasons - > that of collectible factor, that of social status, that of pleasure of using > ("buttery smooth focusing ring" epithets come to mind), etc. > > Boris
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