Would you buy a P&S because Ashton Kutcher says you should?
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From: SMS on 25 May 2010 14:28 On 25/05/10 10:46 AM, Mxsmanic wrote: <snip> > Highly advanced and creative photographers don't spend their time playing with > hardware. Photographers without talent concentrate on the science they > understand, rather than on the art that they don't. I expect that he's a "snapshot" type of photographer. Unless you're photographing active children that can't be still, a P&S camera is certainly adequate. That said, CHDK does give the Canon P&S owner some useful features. I have it on three of our Canon P&S cameras. I enjoy using it, though persuading my kids to do anything with it has not been successful. I wrote a lot of documentation for CHDK so I have an interest in its use, but it certainly doesn't turn a P&S camera into a D-SLR.
From: John Navas on 25 May 2010 14:28 On Tue, 25 May 2010 13:17:21 -0500, D.J. <nocontact(a)noaddress.com> wrote in <ru4ov510kq8si0bdl10e8grlc9sr9036gj(a)4ax.com>: >On Tue, 25 May 2010 11:14:18 -0700, John Navas <jnspam1(a)navasgroup.com> >wrote: > >>On Tue, 25 May 2010 19:46:15 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote >>in <853ov5hug762iqgghg4dlfs08m2r7c3997(a)4ax.com>: >> >>>D.J. writes: >>> >>>> That's why there's a whole section at the CHDK forum of DSLR owners who are >>>> desperately trying to find ways to get just a minor subset of CHDK's >>>> functionality ported into their own cameras. But then, these functions are >>>> only of interest to very advanced and highly creative photographers. I >>>> doubt they'd interest you very much. >>> >>>Highly advanced and creative photographers don't spend their time playing with >>>hardware. Photographers without talent concentrate on the science they >>>understand, rather than on the art that they don't. >> >>Well put. > >Leonardo da Vinci disprove you both. And Jackson Pollack? ;) Photography is about photographs, not equipment. -- 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 25 May 2010 14:30 On Tue, 25 May 2010 11:28:28 -0700, SMS <scharf.steven(a)geemail.com> wrote in <4bfc16d1$0$1639$742ec2ed(a)news.sonic.net>: >On 25/05/10 10:46 AM, Mxsmanic wrote: > ><snip> > >> Highly advanced and creative photographers don't spend their time playing with >> hardware. Photographers without talent concentrate on the science they >> understand, rather than on the art that they don't. > >I expect that he's a "snapshot" type of photographer. Unless you're >photographing active children that can't be still, a P&S camera is >certainly adequate. > >That said, CHDK does give the Canon P&S owner some useful features. I >have it on three of our Canon P&S cameras. I enjoy using it, though >persuading my kids to do anything with it has not been successful. I >wrote a lot of documentation for CHDK so I have an interest in its use, >but it certainly doesn't turn a P&S camera into a D-SLR. Complete nonsense. -- 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: LOL! on 25 May 2010 14:35 On Tue, 25 May 2010 11:28:28 -0700, SMS <scharf.steven(a)geemail.com> wrote: >On 25/05/10 10:46 AM, Mxsmanic wrote: > ><snip> > >> Highly advanced and creative photographers don't spend their time playing with >> hardware. Photographers without talent concentrate on the science they >> understand, rather than on the art that they don't. > >I expect that he's a "snapshot" type of photographer. Unless you're >photographing active children that can't be still, a P&S camera is >certainly adequate. > >That said, CHDK does give the Canon P&S owner some useful features. I >have it on three of our Canon P&S cameras. I enjoy using it, though >persuading my kids to do anything with it has not been successful. I >wrote a lot of documentation for CHDK so I have an interest in its use, >but it certainly doesn't turn a P&S camera into a D-SLR. You don't have it on any camera. You can't even tell someone how it works. We've already tested and proved that about you. And the WIKI history PROVES that you've NEVER contributed even ONE WORD to the documentation, you useless psychotic troll. LOL!
From: Peter on 25 May 2010 20:41
"Mxsmanic" <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:9tlkv5dnpd4grsa1av72sdcc9mt655sr0u(a)4ax.com... > Bruce writes: > >> Of course some people will. Otherwise, why would Nikon pay Aston >> Kutcher to get involved? > > Because it incorrectly believes that a celebrity endorsement will help > sell > cameras? > > Have you ever bought anything because a celebrity endorsed it? Since you are an expert photographer, it might not influence you, but it works for a lot of products. I see no reason a purely consumer camera would be an exception. BTW Are you a marketing expert? -- Peter |