f. monteiro

<p>By the way, if all the "fair and honest" members that often complain about that could vote regulary and with the honesty that they loudly request, maybe the mate rating would dilute to a residual level. Although I'm on the verge of giving up, recognizing defeat, I've been doing my share as good as I can.</p>

<p>"Why they dont give low rates if they want spoil the site?"<br>

What have been spoiling the site for a long time and more consistently are the "mates" reciprocal high rates.</p>

I've just pressed the button. I'm glad that I decided to post my new package idea here. You really helped me on the final decision. That is, the 17-40L and the 70-200L/4. The 2x converter and the 100mm macro were canceled.

 

The fact that the 2x converter with the 70-200 on a Canon 300D only can be used on MF mode made me forget about it. And it's wise to try the 70-200 and see if I need to go longer in the future. In fact, my photography tends to be more panoramic than close up. I was thinking about the 2x converter having in mind street shots, get into the scene without being noticed. And I have a thing about very sharp bird shots too... My old 75-300mm with the 1.6 plus of the 300d sensor was perfect except for the average sharpness quality of most shots.

 

The 100mm macro is going to wait but it's on my list of future buys. I just have to check further that Tamron 90mm f/2.8 Di macro and the 50mm macro.

 

Thank you all for your very helpful comments.

You are all already helping a lot!

 

Some decisions: cancel the 100mm macro and consider the 50mm; replace the 2x converter for the 1.4x (that about the 300d could not be used in AF with F8 was a crucial piece of information).

 

That about the "financial suicide" was just to had a bit of drama :-).

 

Thank you all very much.

I'm using the EF-S 18-55mm and the old and cheap 75-300mm II (no IS,

no USM, no nothing) on a Canon 300D. I've been taking some aceptable

shots with this equipment. Feel free to check it up... :-)

 

Now I'm some minutes away from clicking the button and order a brand

new package. That is, the 17-40L, the 70-200L 4, the Canon 2X

extender and the 100mm macro. Sort of a financial suicide (total

2300 euros / 2760 USD).

 

Can you please comment on this choices and price (I'm planing to

order it from Germany) while I can still change my mind. Thanks!

Hey G., it's just Bob's sense of humour. Don't get him wrong. And as far as I've noticed, the "guys" are pretty inventive around here. That "Bob 'changes names for food' Atkins" is fair enough. I wouldn't do it any other way :-).

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For some hours now, everytime I try to post a new critic request I

get the following error message:

 

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May 2005 14:09:57 GMT Server: AOLserver/4.0 Content-Type: text/html

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Hi Sam M-M.

 

First of all thank you for your comments on my photos and sorry in advance for my english. As you probably already know I'm Portuguese.

 

I'm new around and I guess I'm the "low rating person" you mention in your "helping beginners" above. I've been told about Photo.net a few days ago and I decided to post my photos because I found the site very interesting, both for the excellent photographers and for the way it's built.

 

Untill now I only have 5 comments on my photos, 4 of them are yours and all the 5 are friendly. At least I haven't seen any more. Since I'm new around maybe I didn't realize yet how to see them if they exist.

 

The ratings on my images are average or above average. But I don't consider it important. I'm an amateur "photo taker" and I only take what's already there. Sometimes I don't arrive on time, that's all...

A rating sistem, as I already read here in the foruns, is too much easy to fool and this site is no exception. Besides, as we say in my surroundings, there's eyes for every kind of beauty. And indeed it happens a beauty meets the wrong eyes.

 

I plan to be around for a while if I don't have to write this kind of stuff too often. I'm not "jumping" out of nothing.

 

Your photo I rated "ridiculous low" (2/3 as I recall) was rated acording to my view of the image and it couldn't be any other way. I didn't know it was yours and I didn't know you. See, maybe a beginner is not "tied up" to "friendly rating" and that's good I think. The way it's built here (and it looks like it was with a serious intention of transparency), the rating system foments and explores "rates trading".

 

Nobody can evaluate something by someone's else eyes. The boy is kind of cute, the situation looks interesting but I found the use of 1600 ISO completely unnecessary for the kind daylight outside photo in question. The grain it gets blurs and ruins the scene in my point of view. I'm sure that it's a process that a lot of members like to use and appreciate, I don't. What can I do about it?

 

So far it seems to me that a "rating issue" is going around this site. I already noticed that you have been chosen for a "site hero" what I guess means that you are an active and very helpfull member of this cummunity. Your suggestion for helping beginners sounds interesting. But listen now: I'm a beginner and to be cataloged "low rate person" and a jealous and frustrated photographer in the first two days isn't exactly what I would call help.

 

Sorry for taking so long. But there's one last thing. The point is rate as much as you can according only to what one's thinks of the photo. Fair and honest and no strings attached. In the end of the day, the average going to reflect the "quality" of the photo (if that exists) and reduce to non relevant all the rates that carries something else than the love for photography.

 

Best regards.

 

F. Monteiro