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Forum: Site Suggestions and Help
01-12-2010, 07:28 AM
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That would be a fine example. But I was thinking of the stuff like "What's the best flash for purpose xxxx?", where xxxx usually means "mounting on the hotshoe and aiming straight into the faces of my subjects". Close your eyes and pick one; they'll all do the job. If they had a more advanced usage in mind, they'd already know what features that usage requires and could eliminate inadequate models themselves. "What's the best lens/flash/etc for a wedding?" If you have to ask so broadly, you have no business shooting a wedding. "What's the best brand of ND filter?"....so the second-best would ass up your photos or sumthin?
The mindset is irritating, for one thing. But for another, none of the gear I own is what any of them would consider the "best", so what the hell would I know about it to begin with? Either way, I got nuthin to say.
Unfortunately, your post about the best Takumar 135 happens to fall under this catch-all of mine. A narrowly limited question like that, about relatively not-so-common gear where you're not going to find a lot of comments and easily accessible images for comparison is not something that I feel should be grouped with the type I mentioned above. But the second part of my reasoning still applies.....I don't own the best Tak 135 so I have no way of answering. (My guess would be the M42 mount f2.5 version, though. The 135/3.5 is the only Tak I really don't care for very much).
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Forum: Site Suggestions and Help
01-12-2010, 06:36 AM
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So don't click on them if they bug you.
Same policy I take toward any thread whose title is a question containing the word "best". Feels like wading through a swarm of gnats sometimes.
Anyone who hasn't learned enough about the subject to be able to think of the criteria separating the "best" of a piece of gear from the rest of the gear for themselves would be just as well served by "adequate" gear.....which nobody ever asks about, for some reason.
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