Originally posted by benjikan First off..Why do you hate to admit I have a point? I have never even considered that any of the dialogs on this forum was a type of one up-manship. Well that is a revelation and something I will consider when posting in the future. How unfortunate.
So, do you want to clear the air, so to speak? Want me to explain my phrasing and position? Fine, I work hard to be a blunt, straight from the soul kind of guy. I'm not apt to start a fight; but I never back down nor quit if it hurts.
When you arrived here from DB Review and announced yourself as 'an actual working pro' (that got bounced out for breaking several rules), I immediately associated the terms self-serving, pompous, arrogant, and anal-orifice with your persona. When you further announced your 'connections' with Pentax and offered to 'represent' all us poor forlorn common folks to Pentax-to convey our wishlist and give us a voice, I added several four letter type adjectives to those aforementioned labels.
I asked you about studio flash and got two things, some artsy-fartsy hard-light/soft-light blather and a passing reference to some lights that I did, in fact know about, but not hold in high regard. That exchange had me adding idiot-savant to my description list.
Basically I think you are someone who arrives when all the real work of setting lights, fixing the backdrops, prepping the model and such, is done. Someone who floats in, takes the camera, snaps some shots, sweet-talks with the model to
develop a relationship (when she probably would have dropped and spread just as fast based on your pro rep as 'Benji' alone), waves his hands then leaves. I have serious doubts about you even loading your own memory card. I think you have a full blown crew that does the Photoshopping.
And label me with a twisted mind, but the way you initially deflected criticism and spun the dialogs, I still think there must be three people writing your posts! One who takes the insults and actually spews a venomous reply, one who stands between the reader person and the computer and spins that nasty reply to a sickly-sweet high-handed low confrontation reply that is actually posted, and one who does your research. And the third he/she/it got it way wrong on the front/back focus issue. Where again it drew a well spun soft-soap reply or feigned ignorance when challenged. Looked like poor attempt to 'make Ben one of the guys' kinda thing.
It's not that I don't like you; that would take some lengthy face to face contact and experience. I don't like the on-line persona you've created as the 'pro photographer'. Lots of good people make a living from photography without all the anal-retentive, pompous arrogance and shameless self promotion.
I would venture that many folks here are 'professionals' even if their photography sucks. I'm familiar with two budding professionals who actually make good photographs-one is an archaeologist and I think they other is about to become a doctor. I'm actually an engineer (chemical), self-employed.
Well that's my reply to the first sentence.
How long have you been visiting forums? Hell, part of the reason so much information gets mashed and mangled is that forum posts are PURE one-upmanship: me, me, me; I posted the first answer (right or wrong). Like a room full of elementary students reciting multiplication tables. And you really don't need a magnifying glass to see some essentially repeating the same answer with all manner of similarity and paraphrasing.
You'll never (none of the three of you) convince me that you haven't caught that drift in the forums; it's way too obvious to miss. To do that would require the blind, reading to the deaf after hearing from the mute; and I just gotta see that first hand to believe it!
Originally posted by benjikan None the less. I just tested my K10D with a $5.95 Hama Hot Shoe "Cube" Flash Synchro X adapter. I connected the cable to the flash from the hotshoe adapter and it works flawlesly, as it would with the X Synchro if it were an integral part of the camera.
Yeah, and I think you got lucky with the trigger-voltage; but this is EXACTLY why I agreed that you made/scored a point. Pentax SHOULD have included the common PC x-sync port AND clearly stated the critical trigger voltage so users could match to studio flash. But that's been a problem with Pentax bodies on and off for a long time. Converts like yourself missed all the history us commoners endured.
Originally posted by benjikan My Multiblitz radio system works flawlessly as well. I wish I could be of more help here. This has never been an issue and I have worked in four different studios since acquiring the K10D all using different brands of flash systems and radio controllers and it hasn't been an issue. Just chose the channel to synchronize the receiver with the emitter and started shooting with no problem. That is all I can provide you with at this point in time..
And now you've done it again! Common wisdom says radio sync is the way to go; point two. stand by other readers, it's about to become a streak!
Originally posted by benjikan Sorry..
Ben
And finally, we're full circle-the cutoff sign off. The little "that's all I can provide" and a half sincere "sorry". Right; so it's back to the 'pro-persona'.
Well, I'm out of time too. It takes a lot out of a guy to rescue two damsels in distress and get wounded in the process, but that
was my day.