Originally posted by abcdave Nass, out of respect for the forum, I have been silent on the topic ever since I cashed out. Then I read _lyan_'s clearly derogatory response to FoggyDay, "Bad photos come from bad photographer." - it pissed me off. It is like handing Tiger Woods a bent golf club, then telling him he is a bad golf player because he is struggling to make par. I'm sure others can golf just fine with a bent club - you just have to make the most of what you got.
What FoggyDay said is completely valid. His disposable outperformed his K-r. That is an objective statement which can be measured should we be provided samples from both sets. He clearly has a problem, and if so, he deserves to have it validated (since Pentax clearly won't do it). The response he got was fanboy in nature and (as far as I'm concerned) other forum members are almost as guilty to let such a statement stand in the light of such a well documented problem.
Yeah, ok. What I said was overly broad and a bit harsh. We'll all just have to make the most of it. ...and I'll just make the most of being called immature.
Maybe you should read how FoggyDay describes his use of his K-r. Maybe you will understand my answer. Get a look here:
https://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/pentax-k-r-forum/158917-kr-my-rrrrrrs.html
As I said, bad photos come from bad photographers. Even if your box-for-taking-photos doesn't work as it should in some situations, there are PLENTY of situations where it works fine, since we're talking about FF under tungsten light. But our "friend" here is saying something different.
Here is a summary of k-r situation:
1- most of them work fine
2- some of them have issues in tungsten light
3- some users don't know how to use their camera and blame the camera instead of themselves... because they all are better photographers then Cartier Bresson.
Solution:
1- no problem to solve
2- warranty repair; hopefully go to point 1- / return the camera and be happy with the new one
3- sell the camera, stop pissing serious people on forums, go buy a canikon and whine on canikon forums because the camera can't make coffee.
Based on what he says, our "great 40 years photographer" seems to stay at point 3- . So, he's a crappy photographer, or a troll, or both.
Other people probably have real issues, and I haven't said anything about them. On the other side, as Nass pointed out, you are judging an entire community, on what bases? My sentence, you said, about this great misunderstood photographer. Even if you were right about me (the bad, ugly fanboy), there are thousand of users here, not just me.
I suggest you to think again about your previous statement.
As for me... fanboy? I'll be a fanboy when Pentax will ask me to be one, paying me for that. I'm only a happy customer, till now. Tomorrow I could be very angry, who knows?