I was one of the ones giving him a hard time for stuff like the 200/f2 when he was talking about it, he does need to listen to advice but in this case he just asked a question about a product which produced a variety of responses few of which really addressed what he was asking which was a narrow technical question.
He didn't say 'I want this' or 'should I get this?' just 'how does this work?' - I think a lot of the responses were based on it being him asking, if somebody else had asked the same thing I think it would have been different in tone. Anyway, enough and back on topic...
Thats pretty much how i percieve it and it happens in Motors forum too, though i dont post there.
I have just over £11k in the bank which is great for my circumstances. I love cars and photography but if i post in either for either 11k's worth of photo kit or £11k worth of car, 90% of the thread content will people telling me that im lying because im a 24 year old student because when they were students they didnt have any money.
So its completely pointless asking on here. The 200/2 i was asking about was for sale significantly cheaper than the £3500 rrp now (and was before the vr2 version was out) so was quite a bargain, but im still glad i didnt buy it.
TBH i have listened to the advice on here and in a lot of ways its been the right thing to do, but in some ways life has been harder. I was in a situation the other day where i was trying to take sharp pictures in low light, having listened to people on here i stuck with DX so my camera is only good upto ISO1600, flash wouldnt have produced the right picture, and a D3S would have been very handy.
FWIW i am going travelling in april when i have completed my dissertation / project, i get my final student loan check and im in for 2 weeks after it then i am going abroad with camera gear
Now as for these forums, believe it or not i do listen to people, however there tend to be people who give advice a, people who give advice b, i follow a, then get personally critiscised by both B and A who, over night seem to have changed their "advice" to side with people B, and then you expect me to put up with this personal abuse ?
I used to post up contrasted images up and get abuse for it to the point where i found a guide by chase jarvis and followed it to a tee. I posted this image and got a shed load of abuse from it, telling me how crap i am, how my monitors uncalibrated, how people can take better pics on their iphone, blah blah blah, and yet one of the same people saying this were posting how good this other image (the one i had used as a reference) was.
I have nothing more to say.
