I do enjoy the equipment discussion, but it seems very rare that a useful discussion of aesthetics and photography continues for very long on any marque or equipment centric forum. I'd love to invite you to my mailing list, which is nowhere near as chatty as this one and where most of the traffic is people posting pictures and comments on them. Sign up if you desire at
http://www.micapeak.com/lists/seephoto
There's also an excellent forum for people who are pursuing Picture A Week projects ... again, most of the discussion is about photographs, not equipment:
http://www.micapeak.com/lists/paw
hope to see you there. :-)
Godfrey
On May 17, 2005, at 4:56 PM, UncaMikey wrote:
Since I am still a FNG here, I get to throw in things out of left field and can use newness as a defense.
I am not very interested in gear, I have all the gear I want and need and can use right now. I shoot film, and when I get it processed I get a CD so I can pass shots around. That's just me.
What I most enjoy on PDML is looking at other's photos. Whether I comment or not, I learn something from almost every one. And to be brutally honest, in the time I've been here, I have yet to be able to tell from the photo whether the photographer shot the original with film or digital.
In other words, film or digital seems to have little to do with the intrinsic quality of the photograph. And by "quality" I don't mean by some technical standard, but rather aesthetic appeal. Personally, if someone shares a good shot, I'd rather give at least 99% of the credit to the shooter rather than the equipment.
*>UncaMikey
