On 03.3.8 11:16 AM, "Bruce Rubenstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I follow the digital area of a forum for professional photographers. I > am interested in comments and experiences of people who know what they > are doing and use these things all the time. I am not very interest in > opinions of gadget freak spectators. Bruce, I thought I was going to respect "some" of your posts when I felt they were objective, and not hearsay. I have many interests/hobbies and too busy to read many forums. All the forums I read and quote are from pro photographers. I am sure you may be reading some of the pro forums because we can tell much of your info are hearsay from those (which you sometime misunderstood apparently) but it does not make you a pro photographer or knowledgeable. I do not pretend that what I quote is my info but I always make sure that info from me are "quotes". If I do not understand some of the things discussed, I either put a proviso or do not quote at all. One thing I NEVER do is to tell people as if I know everything when I do not. It is very easy to tell if people are saying certain thing based on his true background, training or understanding, or just a hearsay. Most of your posts are apparently hearsay quoted from other forums. You should tell so. This is also the opinion by other experts. They can tell. I can also talk like yours (know-it-all attitude) if I construct my post with all kinds of hearsays. Perhaps I can do it better than you do (problem with the faceless net discussion). But I am too humble to do so (I suppose :-). You have such a hung up with the self-sarcasm word I used, gadget freak, eh? :-). Gadget freak is usually used to stereotype and poke fun of Japanese people and I used it for myself, but why does it have to do with my opinion? In contrast, P�l (and many other people in PDML), for example, speaks based on his own experience and it shows and that's why it has far more credibility than yours and I tend to listen to him more, even though many of his opinion are, ah, "opinionated". If certain things are hearsay and something he learned from somewhere else, he always says so. He construct his "opinion" in a logical way, if you agree or not, and never takes "I know-it-all" attitude, look down upon other people or mix with foul language which shows your upbringing. So, learn from him and other more decent persons and learn to be humble and gracious, like most of people here are. Take a look at your own posts. They all look like copied from some of those "pro forums" you are talking about. Whare is your OWN opinion based on your OWN experience? And since I went this far, I have an advice for you. Just do not self-elevate yourself to a pro photographer as you are not. Don't be intoxicated with you hearsay you are posting, thinking you are above many of PDMLers here, looking down upon them and insult them as if you feel superior to them. It is showing everywhere in your posts. It is disgusting. Just knock off that habit and return to your humble beginning. Cheers, Ken
