terms that should be abolished from use with respect to photography for the betterment of the craft

[jason_dotson]

<p>I'd like to nominate 'crisp!' <br>

"This image isn't as 'crisp' as I'd like it to be."<br>

It can mean so many things, and nothing at all! That one really annoys me.</p>

[john_h.1]

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<p>Using 'loose' instead of 'lose'.</p>

</blockquote>

<p>Not photographic per se but, along the same lines, using 'ironic' when its only coincidental or hypocritical.</p>

[AlanKlein]

<p>Nice shot ( I use that a lot).<br>

Great shot.<br>

Glows.<br>

Ansel Adams<br>

HCB (as in Henri Cartier Bresson)</p>

 

[dan_south]

<ul>

<li>Tack sharp (it's a lens, not a nail)</li>

<li>Flash (Dude, it's called a strobe)</li>

<li>Walk-around lens (unless it has legs and feet)</li>

<li>Point-and-shoot (it's a technique, not a camera design)</li>

<li>W/NW (includes every possibility, so why bother writing it?)</li>

</ul>

 

[john_h.1]

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<p>Point-and-shoot (it's a technique, not a camera design)</p>

</blockquote>

<p>Really?<br /> http://www.lomography.com/magazine/reviews/2008/09/20/vivitar-uws-the-smallest-wide-angle-plastic-camera and many more...</p>

[steve m smith]

<li>

<blockquote>Flash (Dude, it's called a strobe)</blockquote>

</li>

<p>Not where I live!</p>

[Richard Williams]

<p>'Prosumer', as in 'I imagine one of Canikon's prosumer lenses will be perfectly adequate for your needs, though obviously a serious photographer like me would only buy professional gear'. The original meaning of 'producer/consumer' is an interesting concept, but it now seems to have shifted to 'professional/consumer', jargon for 'enthusiast'.</p>

<p>'Making an image' for that snapshot of the Eiffel Tower.</p>

<p>'Pull the trigger', as in 'I've just pulled the trigger on Canikon's latest prosumer body at B&H. Wish me luck! ! !'.</p>

<p>'Deadpan' , as in 'The Schweppes Prize-winning image of a bored teenager epitomises the Deadpan Style'.</p>

<p>'Build quality', as in 'Are you sure this polycarbonate prosumer body has sufficient build quality for making images of my daughter's school soccer game?'.</p>

<p>Along with the unfortunate 'giclée', the other pretentious terms for common print types when displayed in galleries e.g., 'gelatin-silver' (b&w) and 'C-type' (colour).</p>

[Richard Williams]

<p>...and 'Lomography'. Enough is enough.</p>

[greg_jones1]

<p>And my pet peeve, "ensure" vs. "insure." Are you being sure of something, or underwriting it?</p>

[Dieter Schaefer]

<p>great camera<br>

upgrade to FX</p>

[lex_jenkins]

<p><strong>IQ</strong><br>

In reference to anything involving photography, was there ever a more meaningless yet perversely popular term?</p>

[Dieter Schaefer]

<p>I love my camera - come one now, really?<br>

Will buying ____ improve my photography?</p>

[AJHingel]

<p>Let's just adopt them all and then see if we manage to communicate between us and still talk about photography. I think we will all be send to the Off-topic forum to discuss something else - anything else.<br>

Did anyone mention: "Art is just an empty word"?</p>

[vilk_inc]

 

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<p>"<strong>IQ</strong><br />In reference to anything involving photography, was there ever a more meaningless yet perversely popular term?"</p>

</blockquote>

<p>as perversely popular as it is inversely proportional ;)</p>

 

[Tim_Lookingbill]

<p>Lex, <strong>IQ</strong>? That's one I plumb forgot about. If there ever was photography word torture it's that one.</p>

<p>Now if I can kindly and respectfully ask you to not use the word "parlance" ever again among your wonderfully fulfilling prose here at Photo.net, I'ld much appreciate it.</p>

<p>Parlance? Really? Not cool, man! Not cool!</p>

[lex_jenkins]

<p>Tim, I'll give up parlance in exchange for patois and a dialect to be named later.</p>

[Tim_Lookingbill]

<p>You got it, dude.</p>

<p>uuh...What is patois? You got me on that one. </p>

<p>No! No! On second thought, I don't want to know. It might make me want parlance back.</p>

[david_naprstek]

<p>Calling a lens a "telephoto" when it is just a long focus lens.</p>

[scott_ferris]

<p>David,</p>

<p>I can't agree with that one, originally telephoto lens was used to describe a long focus lens that was shorter than its focal length. Nowadays they basically all are, so they truly are all telephotos. What isn't is a tele, is a 70-200 zoom, it is not a tele zoom.</p>

[marc_batters]

<p>Steps for Stops. Stop using Step!</p>

[AJHingel]

<p>"Patois" (a regional language) is just a genuine French term. You Americans must be able to come up with something more homemade. The American language is an English Patois !</p>

[www.philwinterphotography.]

<p>"What lens should I buy?"<br>

"Should I get a 7D or 5DMKII?"<br>

"How do I achieve this effect?"<br>

And, "Do you want fries with that?"</p>

[orourke]

<p>Protective filter?</p>

[cabbiinc]

<blockquote>

<p>...and 'Lomography'. Enough is enough.</p>

</blockquote>

<p>I absolutely agree whole heartedly. However since most 'Lomography' cameras are one aperture and one shutter speed (with maybe bulb thrown in) then I guess they can't stop. Down with the term anyways I say.</p>

[Ian Taylor]

<p>"capture"</p>