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05/21/2007 01:54:18 AM · #76 |
Originally posted by MikeJ:
Originally posted by RainMotorsports:
MikeJ its also misconception that an SLR or dSLR will make you a better photographer.
I use my SLR as much as i can just cant use it for here. Also using the SLR less due to the seals being 30 years old and i have to tape up the backdoor after i load film. I also have a 1987 Canon AV-1 but i dont have any lenses for it the 50 1.8 for tis broke. |
While it is true that there are some people that can take a outstanding shot with just about any type camera, this isn't true for the vast majority of people out there. I can play any sterio made, but that doesn't mean I'll get the best sound out of it if I don't know how to use all of it's features.
It's an old photographer myth that it isn't the camera but the photographer... To a small extent this is true, but this rumor was started by those that couldn't afford to buy better a long time ago. If the camera didn't matter, you wouldn't see award winning, high earning, highly recognized photographers using the best equipment money can buy (or their sponsors can provide). You sure don't see point and shoots lining the Super Bowl side lines, Indy 500 track, press room at the White House, or being used by the photographers that shoot $50,000 weddings. There is a reason for this... and it's not because they can afford better either. Although not being able to get those big white Canon lenses on a point and shoot might have something to do with it. :D
I agree that for some photography a point and shoot can take just as good a picture as a DSLR. But there are a lot of limitations that it's very hard for a P&S to get around. A lot just depends on how serious the person is in photography. Probably the majority of the people that Russell will be talking to aren't as serious as most of the people on DPC and a P&S does everything that they want and more.
And with everything in life, it's been shown 100% that nothing is absolute. And I'm sure there is someone that can shoot anything from a pin hole camera all the way up to the Hubble Telescope camera and get excellent results... just not of the same subject. ;)
Mike |
I think your point is very valid, but you missed the context in which the other statement is said. We are trying to tell to a layman who thinks that he can only take good pictures if he had a nice shining dSLR.
But instead of thinking this and if this layman understands that it is possible to take good pictures with the camera he has, if he applied himself more.
You will be surprised to find that many new comers at DPC also suffer from same problem, that they need SLRs to compete.
Cameras and technology does matter. And you have said it nicely. But taking a slr in hands does not automatically gurantee you a excelent photo, this is also very true.
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05/21/2007 02:29:06 AM · #77 |
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
Photoshopping away someone's imperfections is easy and only takes seconds. |
...and will be appreciated. |
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05/21/2007 07:45:05 AM · #78 |
| that you could start a thread about misconceptions on a photography site and only get 10 :) |
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05/21/2007 07:58:58 AM · #79 |
| Tripods are only for dark night shots. |
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05/21/2007 08:03:47 AM · #80 |
| It's not a misconception, but if your audience is really novice, I think the most common mistake is not thinking about the picture before it's taken. |
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05/21/2007 08:48:05 AM · #81 |
a truth: a digital camera will allow a bad photographer to take more bad photographs more quickly than ever before.
another truth: the more you suck at photography, the more money you will spend to prove it.
another truth: the ability to take bad photographs outstrips the ability to recognize bad photographs.
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05/21/2007 10:00:38 AM · #82 |
Originally posted by Skip:
a truth: a digital camera will allow a bad photographer to take more bad photographs more quickly than ever before.
another truth: the more you suck at photography, the more money you will spend to prove it.
another truth: the ability to take bad photographs outstrips the ability to recognize bad photographs.
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right now, I think that's me.
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05/21/2007 10:14:12 AM · #83 |
Originally posted by MikeJ:
Or to think that someone with a point and shoot, with shutter lag and lack of changable lenses, lack of manual control, lack of a flash connection, limited shutter speeds, etc., can shoot as well as a DSLR.
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A common misconception is that a DSLR user will make better images. I'm a Nikonians member. Nikonians
I can't count on my hands and fingers the number of posts I've seen on Nikonians where somebody has upgraded from a P&S camera and are exasperated because they can't easily make good images like they could with the old camera.
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05/21/2007 10:19:17 AM · #84 |
| That you have to use the "rule of thirds" ..... not. Every photo is different sometime it works, sometimes a centered pic is better. In art and photograophy rules are meant to be broken, use the rule of tenths sometimes. Frame it where it feels right. |
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05/21/2007 06:47:05 PM · #85 |
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
Your on-camera flash can light an entire football field, auditorium, race track, whatever.
Anybody other than me laugh at all the flashes that pop at the Super Bowl, big Nascar night races, or other big nighttime event? I sit there watching, thinking 50,000 flashes just fired and not a single person got a viable photo. :-) |
Hey, now! Sometimes my P&S stubbornly refuses to focus or use a quick shutter if I don't let it use flash (unless I use macro mode, but that does funny things at distance). I've learned all sorts of tricks for blocking the flash so it doesn't mess everything up. One of the main reasons I upgraded, in fact! |
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05/21/2007 06:48:35 PM · #86 |
It's a misconception to think you can get rational, unbiased recommendations from a salesman that doesn't sell the camera brand, or doesn't have in stock, the brand you are interested in buying.
;D
I really think Russell is going to have to wing it and bluff his way through. LOL!
Mike |
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