On 2/4/12 1:00 PM, Stan Halpin wrote:
On Feb 4, 2012, at 12:42 PM, Bipin Gupta wrote:
A lady holds a Canon DSLR with the caption " You are not a photographer.
You just have an over priced camera".
This is the silliest thought / caption I have seen. The reality: while on a trip
to Europe / UK /Spain last year August, I saw many tourists from Japan&
China - guided group tour - holding Pentax KX and KR DSLRs. Surprisingly
a lot of them were young girls, some even in their teens.
Hey, if I have the moolah and a hunger for photography, even as a learner,
why should I not buy a DSLR?
Bipin. Bangalore, India.
I wonder where this reverse snobbery comes from? Making fun of someone because
they want to use a decent tool for the job?
Reminds me of my brother. In his late teens he took a year off from school, was
working as a surveyor in the Bolivian wilds. His camera was an Argus C-3
rangefinder (probably because that is what my grandmother used.) So the truck
they were in got stuck and then overturned while trying to ford a flooded
river. His camera bag was drowned, when eventually recovered the camera was too
full of river grit to be cleanable. So his next time in La Paz he went looking
for another rangefinder, wound up buying a Leica M-2 because that is all that
was available. So there you have this young kid with a professional's camera.
Back then, I don't think he received much ridicule. Later on (ME-Super era) he
moved to Pentax gear and since then nobody can accuse him of professional
pretensions!
stan
I think the point here, Stan, is not that she has a camera that costs
whatever,but the view that, to too many people, all you need to be a
photographer is a good camera.
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