A forum is a place where we exchange ideas, and different opinions are always welcome.
This thread, though, is a bit different from an ordinary Photrio thread. We complain that firms don't have a direct communication channels with the photographic community, a place where questions can be asked, requests can be formulated, the pulse of the movement can be felt. This thread is a rare case where this can happen, where a firm interacts with the photographic community in a forum, something e.g. that Kodak never did nor it is doing.
I value this kind of interaction.
So I don't see this thread as another casual discussions over the merits of, let's say, rangefinder or reflex cameras. I see it as a communication channel with a firm.
The firm in this case is Ferrania, but in other cases could be Ilford, Kodak, Leica, Hasselblad etc.
I consider especially important, for the success of this kind of communication, that ideas are expressed politely and without making the same point a thousand times, lest the communication channel is justifiably severed.
Constant and pregiudicial negativity, which is always out of place in a forum, is in this thread especially out of place, because this is a place where we can interact about this endeavour, not a place where we bash at the endeavour. This thread was started by Ferrania and is titled "Hallo APUG from FILM Ferrania".
The bashing, if really one feels like bashing, should be made in another thread, which can be opened by anybody, e.g. "What I don't like about Ferraniafilm", or "Why I feel betrayed by the Kickstarter fundraising by Ferraniafilm" etc. a thread which is created by Alessandro Serao or Berri or anybody else who feels like opening it, and where people can discuss the matter without hijacking this thread, which should not be closed because it's a valued communication channel between APUG / Photrio photographers and a firm active in the photographic space.
I think in this specific thread it is especially important to clean one's shoes on the doormat before entering and to express ideas with politeness and objectivity, instead of trying to force the firm/OP into sterile polemics.
Dissent is always welcome but plain insults and repeated one-sentence rants don't make a debate.
This thread, though, is a bit different from an ordinary Photrio thread. We complain that firms don't have a direct communication channels with the photographic community, a place where questions can be asked, requests can be formulated, the pulse of the movement can be felt. This thread is a rare case where this can happen, where a firm interacts with the photographic community in a forum, something e.g. that Kodak never did nor it is doing.
I value this kind of interaction.
So I don't see this thread as another casual discussions over the merits of, let's say, rangefinder or reflex cameras. I see it as a communication channel with a firm.
The firm in this case is Ferrania, but in other cases could be Ilford, Kodak, Leica, Hasselblad etc.
I consider especially important, for the success of this kind of communication, that ideas are expressed politely and without making the same point a thousand times, lest the communication channel is justifiably severed.
Constant and pregiudicial negativity, which is always out of place in a forum, is in this thread especially out of place, because this is a place where we can interact about this endeavour, not a place where we bash at the endeavour. This thread was started by Ferrania and is titled "Hallo APUG from FILM Ferrania".
The bashing, if really one feels like bashing, should be made in another thread, which can be opened by anybody, e.g. "What I don't like about Ferraniafilm", or "Why I feel betrayed by the Kickstarter fundraising by Ferraniafilm" etc. a thread which is created by Alessandro Serao or Berri or anybody else who feels like opening it, and where people can discuss the matter without hijacking this thread, which should not be closed because it's a valued communication channel between APUG / Photrio photographers and a firm active in the photographic space.
I think in this specific thread it is especially important to clean one's shoes on the doormat before entering and to express ideas with politeness and objectivity, instead of trying to force the firm/OP into sterile polemics.
Dissent is always welcome but plain insults and repeated one-sentence rants don't make a debate.
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