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From: Bruce on 24 May 2010 13:31 On Mon, 24 May 2010 09:13:09 -0700, John Navas <jnspam1(a)navasgroup.com> wrote: > >"The best camera is the one you have with you." A meaningless phrase ... from the master of meaningless phrases.
From: John Navas on 24 May 2010 13:59 On Sat, 22 May 2010 12:51:42 -0700 (PDT), DanP <dan.petre(a)gmail.com> wrote in <db6e1d5a-4118-4762-9678-80015257d54a(a)o15g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>: >On 20 May, 18:35, John Navas <spamfilt...(a)navasgroup.com> wrote: > >> Again, great photos can be taken with pretty much *any* camera. > >True, using any camera a good photographer will take some good >pictures (portraits, action, wildlife, macro, night, landscape, >candid). >But if you want to be able to take good shots in all situations you >will need a good camera. >Anyway, most good photographers own good cameras. Again the myth that great equipment makes for great photographs. It doesn't. The *only* thing that matters is the skill of the photographer. Nobody looks at a great photograph and says, "Wow, look at that Nikon image!" And no one camera is best in all situations. -- Best regards, John Buying a dSLR doesn't make you a photographer, it makes you a dSLR owner. "The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it." -Ansel Adams
From: John Navas on 24 May 2010 14:00 On Thu, 20 May 2010 19:24:55 +0100, Bruce <docnews2011(a)gmail.com> wrote in <4cvav55t6ajgv6so6tqlvbspame8k0snh9(a)4ax.com>: >On 20 May 2010 17:16:21 GMT, Stuffed Crust <pizza(a)spam.shaftnet.org> >wrote: > >>In rec.photo.digital.slr-systems John Navas <spamfilter1(a)navasgroup.com> wrote: >>> "A bad workman always blames his tools." [proverb] >>> >>> It's a common misconception that a great tool can make you a great >>> workman. It can't. What matters is the workman, not the tool. >>> Great photos can be taken with pretty much *any* camera. >> >>Yeah, you can use a screwdriver as a chisel, sometimes wih decent-ish >>results, but that dosn't change the fact that with a real chisel you'll >>get better results considerably more easily -- and it'll also let you do >>things that simply weren't possible with a screwdriver. Assuming you >>know what you're doing. > >If there is one thing in life of which we can all be certain, it is >that John Navas has not the faintest idea what he is talking about. 'Those who have evidence will present their evidence, whereas those who do not have evidence will attack the man.' -- Best regards, John "Never argue with an idiot. He'll drag you down to his level and then beat you with experience." -Dr. Alan Zimmerman
From: John Navas on 24 May 2010 14:01 On Thu, 20 May 2010 17:29:35 -0800, floyd(a)apaflo.com (Floyd L. Davidson) wrote in <87bpca9h4w.fld(a)apaflo.com>: >"J. Clarke" <jclarke.usenet(a)cox.net> wrote: >>On 5/20/2010 1:16 PM, Stuffed Crust wrote: >>> In rec.photo.digital.slr-systems John Navas<spamfilter1(a)navasgroup.com> wrote: >>>> "A bad workman always blames his tools." [proverb] >>>> >>>> It's a common misconception that a great tool can make you a great >>>> workman. It can't. What matters is the workman, not the tool. >>>> Great photos can be taken with pretty much *any* camera. >>> >>> Yeah, you can use a screwdriver as a chisel, sometimes wih decent-ish >>> results, but that dosn't change the fact that with a real chisel you'll >>> get better results considerably more easily -- and it'll also let you do >>> things that simply weren't possible with a screwdriver. Assuming you >>> know what you're doing. >> >>Of course if you're a real workman you know how to grind and shape that >>screwdriver into a chisel--might not stay sharp as long as one that's >>purpose made but other than that one piece of sharp steel pretty much >>works like another. > >That doesn't describe a "real workman" at all. It >describes a person who knows little about tools. > >And you clearly don't know much about either tools or >metallurgy 'Those who have evidence will present their evidence, whereas those who do not have evidence will attack the man.' -- Best regards, John "Never argue with an idiot. He'll drag you down to his level and then beat you with experience." -Dr. Alan Zimmerman
From: John Navas on 24 May 2010 14:03
On Mon, 24 May 2010 18:31:53 +0100, Bruce <docnews2011(a)gmail.com> wrote in <6vdlv591vgvg70upahs9mfpeuseivf65f9(a)4ax.com>: >On Mon, 24 May 2010 09:13:09 -0700, John Navas ><jnspam1(a)navasgroup.com> wrote: >> >>"The best camera is the one you have with you." > >A meaningless phrase ... from the master of meaningless phrases. You know yourself better than I would have thought. ;) -- Best regards, John "Never argue with an idiot. He'll drag you down to his level and then beat you with experience." -Dr. Alan Zimmerman |