I think that the view too many people have is that nobody but them is a real photographer. It's funny how competitive people can be about an activity where the output is almost entirely subjective. It seems that any time someone posts a series of photos, the distribution of which ones other people choose as favorites is almost flat.
Doug Brewer <d...@alphoto.com> wrote: >On 2/4/12 1:00 PM, Stan Halpin wrote: >> >> On Feb 4, 2012, at 12:42 PM, Bipin Gupta wrote: >> >>> A lady holds a Canon DSLR with the caption " You are not a >photographer. >>> You just have an over priced camera". >>> This is the silliest thought / caption I have seen. The reality: >while on a trip >>> to Europe / UK /Spain last year August, I saw many tourists from >Japan& >>> China - guided group tour - holding Pentax KX and KR DSLRs. >Surprisingly >>> a lot of them were young girls, some even in their teens. >>> Hey, if I have the moolah and a hunger for photography, even as a >learner, >>> why should I not buy a DSLR? >>> Bipin. Bangalore, India. >> >> I wonder where this reverse snobbery comes from? Making fun of >someone because they want to use a decent tool for the job? >> Reminds me of my brother. In his late teens he took a year off from >school, was working as a surveyor in the Bolivian wilds. His camera was >an Argus C-3 rangefinder (probably because that is what my grandmother >used.) So the truck they were in got stuck and then overturned while >trying to ford a flooded river. His camera bag was drowned, when >eventually recovered the camera was too full of river grit to be >cleanable. So his next time in La Paz he went looking for another >rangefinder, wound up buying a Leica M-2 because that is all that was >available. So there you have this young kid with a professional's >camera. Back then, I don't think he received much ridicule. Later on >(ME-Super era) he moved to Pentax gear and since then nobody can accuse >him of professional pretensions! >> >> stan > >I think the point here, Stan, is not that she has a camera that costs >whatever,but the view that, to too many people, all you need to be a >photographer is a good camera. > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >PDML@pdml.net >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >follow the directions. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
