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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
08-26-2018, 03:59 AM
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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 :rolleyes:
Okay ...
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 ...
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.
And the next straw man argument.
Yeah, seriously. Never held that opinion, never propagated it. But it's arguing against a wall with you.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
08-26-2018, 03:30 AM
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So you decided to completely ignore the bit of my post where I clearly stated that of course skills are important and often a better investment than gear?
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
08-25-2018, 04:08 AM
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Oh come on, not this discussion again ...
Everyone in their right mind knows that better equipment should be matched with growing skills, and that pouring tons of money into gear won't be anywhere near as effective in producing better images than working on one's skills. Really, everyone knows, and I have a feeling that people droning on and on about it are beating a dead horse and just doing so to pet their own ego. Surely, if they are making such statements, they aren't in the gear crowd, they're part of the skill crowd. They are true photographers, able to take award winning pictures with a potato, whereas anyone spending more than a hundred quid on a lens must be completely incompetent ...
The truth is that skills are important, but so is gear. This applies to all areas of photography, but to some more than others. It's possible to produce absolutely stunning landscape photographs with entry-level equipment and some skill, and the same goes for portraiture, street and documentary photography etc.
However, in the realm of wildlife or sports and action photography gear becomes much more important. You can get a lucky in-focus shot of a diving hawk or sprinting football player with an entry level camera and 70-300 zoom, but you will miss a lot of great moments and not turn out nearly as consistently good work as with a professional camera and long, sharp lens with fast AF. Talk about skills all you want, even a complete newbie, given an hour of introduction, will take much better wildlife shots with a D500 and 200-500 lens than a D5100 and 70-300 or K3 and 55-300.
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