Actually, I think this has been in general rather even-tempered discussion. ;-) You, Boris, are always courteous.
I don't think I'm switching positions. The argument is based on a comparison of two situations. These two situations are a single photographer of varying skills with each of two sets of equipment, one set being noticeably higher quality than the other.. I am trying to show that quality of equipment does matter in most situations. This means that the same photographer will, on the average, do better with the higher quality equipment. The language issue may be that the comparison does not imply absolute quality. An absolute duffer may not be helped by anything. A novice with some natural ability may do better with a camera with better exposure and AF. (I suspect that the better the photographer the more difference the equipment will make (at least up to a certain point), but this is ancillary to my main point.) In other words, I'm not saying that good equipment will produce good work, I'm simply saying it will produce better work on the average. This is definitely putting me in the mood to write my test. ;-) On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Boris Liberman <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1/30/2011 5:28 PM, Steven Desjardins wrote: >> >> I admit folks, I fail to see why this idea is so controversial. The >> best photographers often buy the best equipment. Maybe they can >> overcome inferior equipment, but I simply point out that very few of >> them bother to take this route. > > I gotta be slow today and dense. Steve, if you wish, we can always take it > off-list so as to not provoke further controversy. > > Boris > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
