Actually, there are two groups that fit into the catagory. One of the
groups, I really enjoy. They are the "my lens is better than your lens"
people, but all in good humor and talk. We sit, have tea, chat about
lenses, and have more tea.
The other group is a bit worse, they look alike on the surface, but if
you even think of insulting their lens, or claiming yours is better, the
dirty language unrolls from their mouth, and they let you have it with
both barrels. Those seldom get repeat invites to photo events, but they
always manage to find out when people are going to have fun, and show up.
Also, they are the ones that don't let anybody see or touch their
cameras. Note, they don't take pics with it, they claim it's
superiority without any photographic proof generated by them, and they
will not let "us infidels" touch and soil their cameras.. Those I can't
stand...
I did talk to one of the guys, and it took him about 1 hour to set up
his camera "just right", and he took one picture. But at 100 degrees
and 950midity, that's all he could do in the sun to not keel over
with heatstroke. I had a brief chat with him, and he laughed at
himself, said setting up the equipment and the "professional" look, was
his favorite part, the photographic was only secondary.. So he had fun..
I did have a few Cannonites point at me and laugh at my OM.. I had my
cable release out, shooting macros.. I'll still maintain that my
trannies will look better than his... as he shot ZERO... ;-)
Albert
Yes, I had a lot of fun, might do it again next week.
Moose wrote:
Glad you had fun. At first I thought you were judging these other
people on some other kind of criteria, perhaps including number of
pictures taken. Apparently quality is not a criterion here? However,
if your criterion is simply having fun (And a great criterion it is,
too!), then they may have had fun too. In fact, if they, or one or
more of them, were not only doing something they enjoyed, but also
weren't getting all hot(ter) under the collar and <sigh>ing about what
the people around them were doing to enjoy themselves, they may have
had more fun than you did! Of course, if making judgements about
others actions without knowing what moves them is fun for you, maybe
you had the most fun of all. Kind of hard to tell who is the winner
when inner satisfaction is the measure. I prefer to just enjoy myself
and not worry about it.
Some people have been known to fish without a hook. If the goal is to
catch fish, that may not be a good plan. If not, it is. Me? I don't
need an excuse to just contemplate, so I skip the gear altogether, but
I hope those people with the gear are having the time of their lives,
with or without hooks.
Moose
Albert wrote:
Ouch.. and there were quite a few that didn't take any shots, I
wouldn't have believed it if I wasn't there.. What are these people
doing?? <sigh> At least I personally had fun..
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