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From: "Juan J. Buhler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: July 18, 2001 4:54 PM
Subject: Pros
> On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Collin Brendemuehl wrote:
>
> > It's what drives the industry. "Pros use Nikon & Canon. I got a Rebel
G.
> > I look like a Pro. Cool."
>
> :-)
>
>
> I don't want to be a pro. I don't want to look like a pro.
> Professionals have to make money with their photography, they are
> bound to have to let go of whatever (if any) their creative needs are
> in order to satisfy a client.
I'm a pro who works for a salary and uses mainly Nikon on the job because
that's what was there when I took the job many years ago. I could not
justify to myself ditching a complete camera system because, while I do not
really like the "look" of Nikon lenses, they are perfectly adequate for most
purposes. However, when I go home the Nikons stay at the office.
When I shoot for myself, and occasionally when I'm doing something really
special at work, I use my old pre-AF Pentax lenses, because I like the
results. By liking the results I mean that Pentax lenses have certain
nuances, particularly in colour rendition, that suit my personal way of
seeing and in some situations produce results that are more pleasing to me
than other SLR lenses. I can't define these nuances, but they are there and
after 25 years of using SMC lenses they are hard wired into my seeing.
One thing that puzzles me about a lot of pros (and is common although more
understandable in wannabes) is that they are pretty gullible in terms of
their equipment selection. They tend to buy things on the basis of splashy
and sometimes deceitful advertising campaigns rather than real world results
and value for money. I suspect that many are still at least partly amateurs
at heart and find the shiny big-name toys irresistable. Being well-trained
consumers, they also don't have the gumption to take a step back and look at
what they are really getting.
On my own time I have wonderful fun clumping around in the boonies not only
with (gasp) K-mount Pentaxes, but even screw mount Pentaxes, screw mount
Leicas, baby Crown Graphics and other horrors. Looking like an amateur and
loving it. It's kind of fun seeing other local pros smirking at my old gear,
knowing that I've regularly beaten them out of sales because my stuff was
better- usually meaning more beautiful- because I've chosen lenses for
results rather than labels. For both pros and amateurs, results are what
really count, aren't they?
John Poirier
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