Originally posted by normhead I think Mr. FF is saying is, he has no experience so he's just going to rant on about what he suspects might be true.
Oh Norm, if you want to slag me off, at least have the courage to make it a direct reply so I get notified.
I see your hubris has taken you on a crazy ride again. Claiming someone has no experience simply because they disagree with you, counting 'strikes' and fashioning yourself the 'umpire' calling people 'out', because apparently you consider yourself the ultimate authority, the one to put others in their place
Quote: Why do so many people with little to no practical experience ...
Okay ... Quote: The only reason we get insane posts like this is because you don't have to have a license to comment on photography. I get good pictures with my Tamron 300 and 1.7, when conditions are right, I get good pictures with my DA* 200 when conditions are appropriate, I get good images with my DA 55-300 when conditions are appropriate. There isn't a lens I own (which also includes the DA*60-250 and two TCs that meant I don't use the others. They have to be used when appropriate, and when a lens is appropriate, it gives you the best image. Bar none.
Funny, we'll have to let all the professional photographers know. All those Reuters, NYT and AFP journalists running around with expensive primes, all those sports shooters at the Olympics lugging around the big artillery, all the National Geographic photographers with their D5s and massive tele-zooms. They'll be so relieved when you tell them that they (or their employer) don't need to spend tens of thousands on professional equipment, but the kit lens will do! I mean, considering most photographers don't get paid very well, I'm sure they are more than glad to spend the money on their kids' college funds or a new kitchen instead.
They do have the skills and experience, after all, and if skills is
all you need ...
Quote: There's only one possible reason for thinking more expensive gear automatically improves your photos.
And that's the funny thing - I never said 'expensive gear automatically improves your photos'. I said that both skill and gear factor into it, and that gear plays a smaller role in certain fields than in others, but that it
does play a role. But of course you (and many others around here) immediately resort to such straw man arguments, first inventing statements I never made, then attacking them.
Quote: I guess it's not unusual for the youngsters to think experience counts for nothing ...
And the next straw man argument.
Quote: But it's not the most intelligent opinion.
Yeah, seriously. Never held that opinion, never propagated it. But it's arguing against a wall with you.