I Noticed A Lot Of White Lenses

[the_macman]

You need to be elected in order to be President.

[the_macman]

Socialism is left, it basically applies any of various theories or systems of

social organization in which the means of producing and distributing goods is

owned collectively or by a centralized government that often plans and

controls the economy. In short, there is plenty of socialism in the USA as one

of the central role of the government is to redistribute collective money (hint:

that's what taxes are for) and plans the economy to a certain extent by

economical incitatives. Neo-nazism is far right. Applying a neo-nazist label to

someone after you said he expressed socialism is plain stupid, it sounds a bit

like: "Stop driving your Saturn, it pollutes more than a V12" No wonder you

support that sphincter, you're a nullity. When you don't know nada about

political science, you shut the fuck up.

[the_macman]

Public education is a socialist measure, so is medicare. Why? Because we're

talking public money funelled into something which serves society at large.

USA doesn't have to be a socialist country, nonetheless it's full of socialist

measures. When you think of it, so is national security. If it wouldn't be a

socialist measure, everyone would be responsible for building its own bunker

and every airline will pay for everything involved in the security of its

passengers while now the government does that. It's totally understandable to

have socialist programs within capitalism and USA is a prime example.

 

There, Mr. Ramirez, according to your equations it seems to me that you

learned more political science on photo.net than in your whole life. Now get

hooked on CNN, vote for that crap in November and do yourself a favour: shut

up on this topic, you'll look a little less ridiculous.

[the_macman]

Bottom line: Pros love Canon, Burnett is smart enough not to waste his time

on stupidities and you have to lick the ass of the guy who completely screwed

your country, otherwise you're a neo-nazi.

[digitmstr]

I think CANON has gained a virtual monopoly by making a product that kicks butt and having the best PRO services around. Ask any PRO Nikon shooters and they'll tell you as well :)

 

CANON's advantage began with the introduction of the EOS line and soon became a favorite amongst PROS. I know so many people who switched from Nikon to CANON when the EOS-1 came out...

[everitt]

And I still think Burnett and his 40-50+ year old camera (or his $20 camera) takes better pics than the vast majority of the other news photographers and their super high-tech EOS systems.

[jon_austin]

... in this forum (and on photo.net in general) is pointless. I learned this the hard way.

 

Besides, I come here for dialogue about photography. Given some of the responses on subjects political, it's the last place I'd go for insight into these topics!

 

And it's counterproductive. That the Bush press conference to which Jim Mueller's original post referred was only incidental. That so many PJ's appeared to be sporting long, white Canon L zooms is the issue.

 

*** end of rant ***

[joe_fikes]

Hey moderator...

 

I thought this forum was supposed to be about Canon photography.

[majid]

There are quite a few white lenses in this <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/politics/20040408_RICETESTIMONY/qtvr_popup.html">Quicktime VR</a> of Condoleeza Rice's testimony to the 9/11 commission (New York Times).

[jim_koral]

Hey "Mac-Man": STFU, please. Personal political rants belong on sites like fark.com et

al. Redirect your zeal instead for photography and L-$eries lenses.

 

As to the original post, I heard Bush speaking Sunday morning on NPR. The sound of

many, many 8 FPS cameras fired in high burst mode was of particular interest. I wish

I could tell the difference between Nikon and Canon, but I would wager Canon was

the dominate camera in attendance.

[the_macman]

I concentrate on whatever I please, hence I've chosen to direct my zeal on the

fact that shooting defecations is a waste of L glass and thus an inappropriate

use of the high quality item. It has nothing to do with politics, it's a pure

question of image composition using Canon equipment :) A question entirely

pertaining to photography and its technique.

[jimstrutz]

Oooh! Did you smell that? I think the photonetter just stepped in it again. :)

 

I thought this was about the abundance of white lenses. What does one's political opinions have to do with it?

[jim_koral]

Macman: OK, yer a funny guy. HA HA. But while we disagree about Bush, tell me

that with the "Macman" moniker you are a hard-core Apple dude who

would only glances at Windoze BS whilst at work (or other unpleasant activities). Mac

& Canon users= a better tomorrow for us all.

[martin_k1]

People have different opinions about politicians and lenses. There are people who believe, that Bush is a good president. And there are people who think, that Tokina and Phoenix are good lenses.

[r._j.]

Uh, if we can get back to the original topic of "white lenses" at a Presidential press conference, I see white lenses at all the major events I photograph. And I live nowhere near the USA.

 

The fact that I get commissined to photograph events in 'real time' (not in a studio, where you have plenty of creature comforts and all day to get the shot) is the reason I am in the process of switching to Canon. It is a major financial step and my opinion on what to buy is based on four things:

 

a) My own research about the various products available;

 

b) My subject matter. (I don't shoot macro, so I won't need a macro lens or close-up extension tubes);

 

c) The opinions expressed here by existing, experienced Canon users;

 

d) The opinions of my long-term camera tech-o, who fixes all types of camera equipment and can tell me about a potential camera's internal quality and build, not just its "specs".

 

Shifting away from a system I've happily used for 20 years was hard, hard, hard. I won't go into the details but, overall, yes, Canon has the edge.

 

In fact, Nikon has all but admitted that focusing inside the camera body (rather than the lens) was a mistake on their part and they have effectively purchased Canon's AF technology to continuing playing the catch-up game.

 

Too late, Nikon - even though I love the look of your products more than Canon stuff, catching up will take a long time. But they are not the only ones who fell behind. Look at what happened to Olympus....