|
Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
03-14-2007, 09:24 AM
|
| |
It would seem to be that he is forgetting to push the "now take a sharp picture" button that comes with the expensive models. :lol:
I wonder if the rich are so frustrated in life that they just HAVE to fritter away their money or whether they are such open faced wooses (sp?) that the camera salesman is laughing in his head saying something like "I've gotta live one here and I'm gonna take him for all I can." Or as Bugs Bunny might say: "What a Maroon!":p
Stephen
|
|
Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
03-13-2007, 07:56 PM
|
| |
Ted, Ben and Dave,
You all have hit the proverbial nails on the head with your comments here. I have seen Canikon envy a thousand times in my career. Though early in my career it was Nikcanon :)
In the late 70's I was assigned to cover the New York Cosmos soccer team, with all the greats that played on it, Pele, Beckenbauer, Chinaglia, and Carlos Alberto to name just a few. I was pretty much just a newbie, that had finished graduate school and decided to go back and study a professional career in scientific photography. Somehow, through perseverance I landed this gig for Soccer USA, a national sports magazine in circulation at the time and covered the team for two years.
On the sidelines, I worked among the seasoned pros and felt a little sheepish with my, then state of the art Pentax K2DMD's, and some longer fixed focal length lenses that Pentax had out at that time. But the camera never let me down because it was a good camera and it was understanding the sport that made the captures effective. I have never felt that 5-10+ frame a second made a photographer a better photographer. In reality, with rare exceptions, they often (at 5 frames per sec anyway) often miss exactly what they were trying to capture....hoping that the camera would capture what their individual skills could not.
Now, on other themes, people with money for great gear (not pros) generally fail to take decent photography because of several important reasons: 1) They have no understanding whatsoever of the basic principles of photographic physics required to do acceptable work. 2) They lack the facility to be self critical. 3) They do not understand light....period! 4) They do not understand the camera is only a tool or extension of the mind. 5) And fail to understand that even professional photographers tend to occupy a niche and are generally not masters of all venues in imaging.
In the decades of lecturing in photography I have tried to get people to understand the need for understanding their equipment and themselves and educate themselves by studying diverse photographers. But I often think it falls on deaf ears. I often see the guys with the best gear (money being no object) often producing some of the poorest images. This is just a somewhat humorous dichotomy of life.
So, sorry for the long winded, going nowhere diatribe. Just thought that I'd plug Pentax saying I got what I could afford when I started out in photogrpahy. I can afford what I want now and I still stick with Pentax. But, now that I have gotten back into personal photography after a long layoff...I sure wish I could find those big, long, rare FA lenses :). I think the best is still to come with Pentax.
Thanks for listening.
Stephen
|
