> Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 10:38:36 -0400
> From: Henry Posner/B&H Photo-Video <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: EOS Re: D30 and print size.
>
> >I am selling well what my D30 produces, so this
> >meets my definition of "professional".
> >
> >Now im curious to learn about your definition.
>
> McDonald's sells plenty of hamburgers but if I was a
> graduate of the Culinary Institute of America I am
> not sure I'd consider their fare <professional>.
I do. Under almost all local conditions worldwide
they can be expected to produce a predictable result
of perdictable quality.
> While your stuff may really be excellent, I have seen
> plenty of people pay good money for what I would kindly
> describe as organic fertilizer. The mere fact that it
> sells does not, to me, render it professional.
First of all a profession is the thing that brings
home the bacon. So, selling pictures makes them
professional. What technical or aesthetical level
of quality this product has and how good the
continuity of quality is under changing or various
conditions is disputable, agreed.
> I would like to think there is a quality and/or
> aesthetic quality to professionally produced work.
I have worked in a pro lab for some years. No,
I don't think that there is a technical or
aesthetical definition of pro work.
> BTW, in photography, I do not think that an image
> produced by a professional camera is a priori
> professional, nor do I think an image produced by
> a camera deemed non-professional renders the image
> less than professional. Very few of my clients care
> what equipment I use. They care about results.
Which is pretty much of what I think. For nearly
twenty years now all my cameras are used in manual
mode and with spot metering where available. Still
I'm one of the fastest, and I rarely miss a shot,
while others do. Also my results are more consistent
because I don't rely on AE to fix what I fail to
control.
You are right, some of us with a Russian-made Zenith
are able to blast away some others with an EOS-1v with
their results. Tools help, but the photographer
makes the difference.
--
Michael Quack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://www.photoquack.de
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