more expensive the gear the better the photographer?

[Bill Burk]

Old-N-Feeble, You weren't planning on making a light saber out of it were you?

 

[lxdude]

BTW, there's more than one running joke in this thread.

Odd, I hadn't seen any jokes about running...

 

[lxdude]

I'm probably too old to get it anyway (55)... Don't tell me though, it would spoil the fun like when someone posted the answer on George Takei's facebook post "The Hidden Tiger". I can't un-find it.

Hell, I needed the "horse" hint, or I'd never have figured it out! Though given your performance on the "Name that photo and photographer" thread, it's clear your brain cells aren't near as shriveled as mine...

 

[Old-N-Feeble]

Old-N-Feeble, You weren't planning on making a light saber out of it were you?

Nope, I'd re-sell it to someone else who probably would though. It's hard to pass up a couple hundred bucks. No worries... I'd tell a fellow APUGer how much their flash is worth before buying it.

 

[eclarke]

Buy what makes your work best. Junk slows you down. lots of the LF guys say they like the slow process but I want to get the picture. All photo things are tools and you need to learn how to use them efficiently.

 

[removed account4]

sorry ONF

i have never even had one of these flashes, if i did, i would have sold it 13 years ago for the big bucks,
these days you can find them for almost nothing at ebpoink.

 

[Bill Burk]

Buy what makes your work best. Junk slows you down.

You make a good point.

I take this to mean that a better photographer sets aside a camera which does not function properly or operate easily, and replaces it with something better.

 

[scheimfluger_77]

You make a good point.

I take this to mean that a better photographer sets aside a camera which does not function properly or operate easily, and replaces it with something better.

You know, this may be the most concise, summative comment about the subject of this thread yet.

 

[removed account4]

You know, this may be the most concise, summative comment about the subject of this thread yet.

the problem is
that there are some very skilled and talented photographer
who don't do this... they use / operate cameras that are difficult to operate
( for a variety of reasons ) and are manually operated ( which can make them even more difficult to operate )
and don't chose to change their equipment, but make their equipment work for them taking the difficulties into consideration.

if what bill suggested was true, then the most talented and gifted photographers would opt to use something totally automated.

 

[Bill Burk]

I had a specific camera in mind when I wrote that... the Retina I had me flabbergasted recently. I was taking a beach scenic and a helicopter flew low overhead. I couldn't wind it, cock the shutter (sticky shutter lever) and compose in the 30 seconds or so that I had before it flew past the bluff.

 

[Old-N-Feeble]

sorry ONF

i have never even had one of these flashes, if i did, i would have sold it 13 years ago for the big bucks,
these days you can find them for almost nothing at ebpoink.

What is "ebpoink"?

 

[removed account4]

What is "ebpoink"?

eboink ?
eboo?
eb-y ?

 

[Dan Fromm]

eboink ?
eboo?
eb-y ?

the-auction-site-that-must-not-be-mentioned

I have no idea why people believe that writing or saying eBay will bring calamities but there's no doubt that many believe that.

 

[pdeeh]

Oh Jeez Dan, you've gone and said it, now you've got to go into the garden, find a toad, walk round it three times (clockwise) and then come back indoors and throw some salt on the fire while reciting a spell ...

 

[Old-N-Feeble]

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[Bill Burk]

There's another site where you can go for this: graflex.org

 

[removed account4]

There's another site where you can go for this: graflex.org

hi bill

i don't think graflex.org has a classifieds area ... maybe it does and i never stumbled upon it ...

 

[Bill Burk]

I was baring some pure evil. They hate discussions about light sabers there.

 

[Dan Fromm]

Oh Jeez Dan, you've gone and said it, now you've got to go into the garden, find a toad, walk round it three times (clockwise) and then come back indoors and throw some salt on the fire while reciting a spell ...[/QUOTE

Oh, dear. You've got wrong, all wrong. You walk three times 'round a toad, throw salt in the kitchen fire, and say the spell to remove Zeiss bumps from a camera. I'm not a camera. I don't have Zeiss bumps or warts. I'm a false believer and magic, even unsympathetic magic, has no effect on me.

 

[removed account4]

you folks are pretty funny


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Buy what makes your work best. Junk slows you down. lots of the LF guys say they like the slow process but I want to get the picture. All photo things are tools and you need to learn how to use them efficiently.

you said it e!
the whole "slow process" i dont get either.
i have been around people that took like an hour to make 1 photograph in their camera ..
i had a similar camera, and i was pretty muchout of film and time ...
soon after he made his exposure, i was ready to leave.

 

[Old-N-Feeble]

AA sometimes stayed in one place for days to make one photograph waiting for the right weather, atmospheric conditions, sky, lighting, etc.

 

[removed account4]

AA sometimes stayed in one place for days to make one photograph waiting for the right weather, atmospheric conditions, sky, lighting, etc.

im not saying he didn't ... but that is the last thing i would ever do ...
and i can imagine, he was so good, his camera equipment must have COST A FORTUNE !

 

[pdeeh]

no, he was so good because his camera equipment cost a fortune ...

 

[Old-N-Feeble]

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[removed account4]

no, he was so good because his camera equipment cost a fortune ...

that's right, i keep forgetting the purpose of my thread,
thanks for the dope slap pdeeh