Originally posted by Gooshin it always surprises me how people tend to forget that "true" photographers spent countless hours in a darkroom
photoshop is the digital age's dark room... hence the adobe program, lightroom......
This is true but why spend more time than necessary? I don't know about you, but my "free" time is precious to me, I don't need to spend it needlessly re-creating something that happens automatically every time I click the sutter.
Quote: also there is such a thing as "preset", once you know how your lower-grade lens shoots, and once you find how to fiddle with your low grade lens photographs to make them look high grade, you just save that preset and off you go..
Again, why spend the time? By the time you've spent getting XYZ lens to 'sorta' look like a first class prime, I will have taken and processed innumerable pictures with said prime, without having to remember which process was saved where.
Quote: in any case, i would love to own a 31 or a 77, but what i'm saying is that one doesnt have to go bannana's hording the best glass to produce awesome pictures.
Actually what you said was "because of photoshop all that matters is lens sharpness" To which I reply as above. Besides I do not a) drive myself bananas. or b) hoard lenses.
I save my money to buy what I want. Does a good high quality prime make me a better photographer? No. Like any craft what makes me a better photographer is more practice, and I'd rather practice shooting photos than practice trying to get a lens to look like what it's not. What a good quality prime
does give me is an easier way to capture the best shots I'm capable of.
NaCl(and being lazy I'm all for "easier" )H2O