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Chrlz wrote:
> Jeremy posted a very accurate review of your image, Douglas, with no
> hint of a personal insult. His observation on the (lack of) skill of
> the operator was spot on. I note that *any* questioning of your
> 'skills' results in a blast of profanity - some people just refuse to
> learn.
>
> What sort of 'technician' would shoot a mainly white-clad person on a
> sunlit sandy beach in.. wait for it.. program mode, no exposure
> compensation, and partial metering...? And then you post the horribly
> (but *correctly*) underexposed result (that's what you *told* the
> camera to do), along with a histogram that should have taught you a
> valuable lesson. And then, of course, you blame the equipment.
>
> When your wrong choice of exposure methodology was pointed out, you
> respond with insults befitting the playground again.
>
>
> Any questions, folks?
>
> Take another look while it lasts - check out his comments, the EXIF
> data, and histogram:
>
>
http
/www.ryadia.com/flinders-20D.htm
>
> I've grabbed a copy of the page for non-commercial use (O; - anyone
> who wants to see it after Douglas inevitably pulls it, just ask here...
>
Troll is too kind a word for you Stevens. Vandal is more appropriate.
How lucky are you your net worth is not enough to recover the costs of
suing you for the defamation you posted about me? I might yet do it.
Examples of differences are the things neither you or any of your kind
ever post. No need to wonder why either with the responses you and Nixon
make. Too scared someone will give you a basting for your effort.
Not happy that I posted an unusual picture demonstrating the broad
contrast range a FZ20 can capture. No. He speculated then that If I
"knew how to use" my 1D I might get better results without him having a
clue what the EV range of the camera actually is. Bait and more bait.
As if that's not a troll. When I post a picture from a 20D, taken the
same way as the FZ's was, demonstrating you can't have highlight and
shadow detail when the (read Canon) sensor can't capture it ...and the
shot is metered for the highlights. You and he go on an attack about my
metering technique as if you actually have a clue yourself - which you
don't.
Not bad for couple of wannabes who've never owned the gear, used the
gear or even seen it close up except to maybe drool over it in a
magazine. Despite that, you're a couple of "experts" right enough. Just
see Jeremy now with his Fisheye lens getting a portrait into
perspective. LOL.
Anyone interested in discovering if the $800 FZ20 will do what they want
instead of a DSLR with many (often expensive)lenses will benefit from
seeing what they can expect to get from either one if used the way most
people would use their consumer cameras. In fact I'd say from the people
I see with DSLR s that they rely on 'full auto' (green box mode) more
often than any other mode.
Like your little DSLR Sony is a really hot toy with manual exposure too,
eh? Somewhere along the way you have to meter the light. I have a camera
that is promoted by it's manufacturer as being "state of the art" at
doing this... And just like your little plastic digicam, It's not.
Take a vote and see how many people use program mode on their cameras.
As if it's somehow a sin to buy a $2500 camera with an advanced exposure
program and actually use it to let the camera calculate an exposure of
an ever changing subject.
Do you think for one minute, Canon could justify the cost of one of
these things if you had to manually meter every scene? Wake up fool. If
it's there, it's there to be used and if it doesn't work and another
camera 1/3rd the price has the same function that does work, you'd have
people believe I'm grossly incompetent for showing that to them...
You're really are one sorry dude, Stevens.
Not every subject is tied to a mooring pole at Port Lincoln, you know.
You actually know what a histogram is?... That's a revelation. Now try
and use it while an event is in progress and cloud moving around from
overcast to bright sun. While you're at it, keep the white balance in
check too.
Watch your gear as you fight a bunch of other photographers for a shot
at the action. Go on, you can do it. Just take a shot. Check the
Histogram. Take another shot. fix the white balance. Take the final
one... Oh sorry the subject got up and went home! That's why I sell my
photos and you only dream about it, wanker.
--
Douglas,
Zero care factor for negative responses
from anonymous posters.
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