$84,000 of nothing
That ^^^ means no flashy logos or daft graphics please!!
See it bigger!!
***RANT ALERT!!!***
The list:
3x 400D's
3x 40D's some gripped
2x 5D's one gripped
1x 5D Mk II
1x 300D gripped
2x T90's
1x F80 (and 24mm f/2.8)
1x Diana
1x Mamiya C330 (and standard lens)
1 x light meter, Sekonic I think
2x Cyber Sync receivers
1x Cyber Sync transmitter
1x Orbis
2x 580 EX's
9x 580 EX II's
3x Pocket Wizards
1x 12mm ext. tube
1x 25mm ext. tube
1x 1.4x TC
2x 24-70 f/2.8 L's
1x 24-105 L IS
3x 70-200 f/2.8 L IS's
1x 70-200 f/4 L IS
1x 300 f/4 L
1x 200 f/2.8 L
1x 50mm f/1.4
1x Sigma HSM 50mm f/1.4
1x Sigma 24 f/1.8
1x 17-55 f/2.8 IS
3x 55-250 IS
1x 100 macro
1x 50mm f/1.8
1x 17-40 L
(and a load of bits...)
And to think that lot was about two-thirds of what was meant to turn up. There were five other bodies, about eight more L lenses including a 500mm f/4 and towards another ten 580 EX II's due there. By my reckoning, at 'buy-me-new' current prices (in NZ) that's about $84,000 in attendance, with about another $32,000 that nearly showed up for their picture.
So at first glance, you see a shit load of posh camera stuff on the table right? Tools bought by photographers to aid their quest for better pictures. You all lust, we all lust after the latest toys, 5D2's or D700's, the Xpan or an 85mm 1.2, wanting more all the time. We all do it.
And it's with that mentality I get a lot of people coming to the photos I take and not actually seeing the picture, not realising what's going off and why, no bothering, not opening their fucking eyes, and assuming, and expecting whatever photo it may be is a pure product of the equipment used. Granted a lot of the time, you can't take a photo so well unless you've got 'X' piece of kit, but it really isn't, REALLY isn't what makes the photo.
The thought process, the photographer, and the quest for furthering your images is what makes photos. Expensive camera gear does not.
I'll repeat that for those hard of hearing, expensive camera gear does NOT make the photos.
You do.
I am fucking tired of forever being labeled and hassled about this. I get gear nerds whacking off over the latest and greatest all the time, through work, through my photos and through here. Genuinely if you can't see the point of this, and why masturbating over the latest gear isn't on, then you need your head looking at. I spoke to one guy this week with a 5D2 and about five L lenses, a $1200 tripod and a fuck load of fancy lights, all bought to improve his pictures, and yet he's not left his back garden with it yet, and got past shooting whatever mundane shit's there in auto mode. I mean, Jesus H Christ! :-(
So, if you collect pictures of lenses from the internet and stash them away like a replacement for porn, get out more.
If you ask what f/ stop or shutter speed was used every single time you see a photo, and have been shooting for longer than three months, either buy a nice tutorial book or get out more.
If you sit and have conversations with yourself and other (fat American) people on the internet arguing the finer points of noise control in cameras you'll never own or use, get out more.
If you feel the need to wear your Nikon, Canon, Zeiss or whatever logos with pride wherever you go, you either need to leave home because you're 43 and still live with mum, or need to find a girlfriend.
If you think Ken Rockwell makes sense, pick a new hobby.
If you think the forums on dpreview.com are a treasure trove of well-balanced and educated information, please leave the planet.
If you decided to order your new 5D and then cancel the order at the last minute to buy a ****ing Sony because some people took photos of fairy lights over Xmas and found some black dots, seriously, get your head read.
If you think lower and lower noise makes better cameras, step back from the plate for a second, and ask how many genius photographers on this website actually add it all back in? (Answer = lots)
If you think owning a Nikon or a Canon makes you better than your opposite camp owning enemy, get out more. Take anger management classes, see a shrink, then get out some more again.
If you think these rants are illogical and piss you off, take a look at them again and see how many apply to you. I am right.
Seriously,
If you think that cameras and all that expensive shit at the top make the photo, sort your act out.
(Here endeth the rant, and the photo that's taken three years to set up!)
$84,000 of nothing
That ^^^ means no flashy logos or daft graphics please!!
See it bigger!!
***RANT ALERT!!!***
The list:
3x 400D's
3x 40D's some gripped
2x 5D's one gripped
1x 5D Mk II
1x 300D gripped
2x T90's
1x F80 (and 24mm f/2.8)
1x Diana
1x Mamiya C330 (and standard lens)
1 x light meter, Sekonic I think
2x Cyber Sync receivers
1x Cyber Sync transmitter
1x Orbis
2x 580 EX's
9x 580 EX II's
3x Pocket Wizards
1x 12mm ext. tube
1x 25mm ext. tube
1x 1.4x TC
2x 24-70 f/2.8 L's
1x 24-105 L IS
3x 70-200 f/2.8 L IS's
1x 70-200 f/4 L IS
1x 300 f/4 L
1x 200 f/2.8 L
1x 50mm f/1.4
1x Sigma HSM 50mm f/1.4
1x Sigma 24 f/1.8
1x 17-55 f/2.8 IS
3x 55-250 IS
1x 100 macro
1x 50mm f/1.8
1x 17-40 L
(and a load of bits...)
And to think that lot was about two-thirds of what was meant to turn up. There were five other bodies, about eight more L lenses including a 500mm f/4 and towards another ten 580 EX II's due there. By my reckoning, at 'buy-me-new' current prices (in NZ) that's about $84,000 in attendance, with about another $32,000 that nearly showed up for their picture.
So at first glance, you see a shit load of posh camera stuff on the table right? Tools bought by photographers to aid their quest for better pictures. You all lust, we all lust after the latest toys, 5D2's or D700's, the Xpan or an 85mm 1.2, wanting more all the time. We all do it.
And it's with that mentality I get a lot of people coming to the photos I take and not actually seeing the picture, not realising what's going off and why, no bothering, not opening their fucking eyes, and assuming, and expecting whatever photo it may be is a pure product of the equipment used. Granted a lot of the time, you can't take a photo so well unless you've got 'X' piece of kit, but it really isn't, REALLY isn't what makes the photo.
The thought process, the photographer, and the quest for furthering your images is what makes photos. Expensive camera gear does not.
I'll repeat that for those hard of hearing, expensive camera gear does NOT make the photos.
You do.
I am fucking tired of forever being labeled and hassled about this. I get gear nerds whacking off over the latest and greatest all the time, through work, through my photos and through here. Genuinely if you can't see the point of this, and why masturbating over the latest gear isn't on, then you need your head looking at. I spoke to one guy this week with a 5D2 and about five L lenses, a $1200 tripod and a fuck load of fancy lights, all bought to improve his pictures, and yet he's not left his back garden with it yet, and got past shooting whatever mundane shit's there in auto mode. I mean, Jesus H Christ! :-(
So, if you collect pictures of lenses from the internet and stash them away like a replacement for porn, get out more.
If you ask what f/ stop or shutter speed was used every single time you see a photo, and have been shooting for longer than three months, either buy a nice tutorial book or get out more.
If you sit and have conversations with yourself and other (fat American) people on the internet arguing the finer points of noise control in cameras you'll never own or use, get out more.
If you feel the need to wear your Nikon, Canon, Zeiss or whatever logos with pride wherever you go, you either need to leave home because you're 43 and still live with mum, or need to find a girlfriend.
If you think Ken Rockwell makes sense, pick a new hobby.
If you think the forums on dpreview.com are a treasure trove of well-balanced and educated information, please leave the planet.
If you decided to order your new 5D and then cancel the order at the last minute to buy a ****ing Sony because some people took photos of fairy lights over Xmas and found some black dots, seriously, get your head read.
If you think lower and lower noise makes better cameras, step back from the plate for a second, and ask how many genius photographers on this website actually add it all back in? (Answer = lots)
If you think owning a Nikon or a Canon makes you better than your opposite camp owning enemy, get out more. Take anger management classes, see a shrink, then get out some more again.
If you think these rants are illogical and piss you off, take a look at them again and see how many apply to you. I am right.
Seriously,
If you think that cameras and all that expensive shit at the top make the photo, sort your act out.
(Here endeth the rant, and the photo that's taken three years to set up!)