It was 30/3/04 8:59 am, when Bob Marchant wrote: > BTW , there was an interesting comment a short while ago about how �30k > of equipment still seemed to produce boring images compared to some of > the photographs being produced on DSLRS . Without wishing to draw too > much flak , I think that this observation must also be qualified . I'm > having great fun producing 'creative' imagery on the D1s , and it lends > itself to lifestyle etc. For the really technical stuff , I'll still > use the Sinar 54 and 23.
Bob Since you are qualifying, I may as well qualify your qualification. I didn't say �30k equipment produces boring images but that owning it and using it doesn't necessarily produce "quality" images. Of course, you can go on to qualify quality! <g> We all know it's the photographer's imagination plus technical knowledge that produce a quality photon graph. I just despair when people try to defend expensive equipment as if it were necessary to produce interesting or quality images and deride the less expensive equipment, and the user by implication. I've been taking photos since 1979, one way or another, mostly on 35mm, 645 and 6mpx. However, the majority of my experience is with beta, 16mm and 35mm motion image capture. Have to say, the same "snobiness" exists in the motion picture industry as the stills industry: 35mm users look down on 16mm and 16mm users look down on beta and beta users look down on stills (just kidding about the last!). When beta came out, 16mm users looked down on it and some even refused to touch it. But because the less snobbish used it, the " technical quality" kept improving and is so high now that it easily surpasses 16mm shot in the 80's, which the snobs thought was the bees knees � except, of course, the 35mm boys. When George Lucas decided to shoot his Star Wars tri-prelogy on digiBeta, you should have heard the derision (mostly fuelled by fear) and the criticism when he went ahead and produced the films. The technoheads, who count pixels, nitpicked the films to death while the public at large, who count for nothing in these debates, flocked to see them and the accountants, who count only dollars, laughed all the way to the bank! One shouldn't dismiss photography done on 35mm, a D1s or even a D10 as fun, creative or lifestyle (what is life style?...you can interpret it so many ways). Henri Cartier-Bresson, to mention just three, is laughing all the way to the bank as his "crude" 35mm images sell by the millions! While trillions of images shot on 6x6 languish in dusty drawers or have been consigned to the furnace or buried by the council. Horses for courses and Enterprise for those far off regions that only the Hubble can see! And the mission of the dSLR? To go boldly where no Sinar dares! But you know that, of course...<g> Shangara Singh. __________________________________________________ :: Photoshop CS Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) :: Photoshop CS Essential Tips && ACE Exam Aids && Glossary :: http://www.photoshopace.com && http://www.examaids.com =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
