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<p>This discussion is apposite, as I have made a significant change in my shooting over the last 7 months or so. I take far fewer shots these days and even from this lower number, I reject a fair amount. I have become more demanding of myself and I can see a big difference in the quality of my work. But yes, some spontaneity has been lost. I was looking through my shots from the last few years last night and there are some nice moments captured, but there are also loads and loads of wasted opportunities. This is down to my inexperience certainly and I hope that I would do a better job today if faced with the same scene, but it was very frustrating to look back over several hundred frames and see something wrong with almost all of them. It's great that I am improving and I suspect that it is almost inevitable to have this reaction if one is to improve, but when I think of the time and effort it took to take those mediocre shots and my joy in them, it makes me feel a bit silly </p>

<p>What Prince is doing is just wrong; clearly, blatantly and simply wrong. While Art is essential to our cultural life, something fundamental has been missing from the so-called Art World for a very long time.</p>

<p>I teach ESL and I remember teaching some young kids what to do if they see a snake.<br> Stop.<br> Back away very slowly for 5 paces<br> Ruuuuuuun!<br> It was great fun. [and I hope accurate]</p>

<p>I'd buy a Sony A7S plus Zeiss 55/1.8, a new laptop, DXO Optics Pro plus film pack, and with the rest I'd visit my home country for a few weeks, then relocate to Japan.</p>

<p>I have to say it seems very much to be the case that some US police departments are at war with the people they are supposed to protect. We have seen a spate of appalling incidents recently. And as has been noted above, it seems a disturbingly large proportion of the American Public support whatever action is taken by them. I have read many disgusting posts on another famous photography forum which are exemplified by the quote "If a police officer wants to see you dead, I want you dead too."<br> The LAW doesn't get a look-in. The police seem think they are The Law. Perhaps they all need to get fancy gold helmets and redesignate urban areas as Megacities?</p>

<p>Digital imaging is incredibly complex. This is something we all know but when trying to evaluate a potential purchase most people, specialists & nonspecialists alike naturally tend to want hard facts to work with. There is little doubt that the factors routinely discussed [DR, CD, ISO noise etc] are important when considering a new body and other factors [CA, Distortion etc] regarding a lens are equally important but of course they are not the only data which need to be known. Some people will reject one product for reasons others find irrelevant or even ridiculous. However, given how much time, effort and money many of us devote to photography, we do require a way of deciding whether this or that camera is right for us. Unfortunately, most of the time, this only comes with experience, which is why many of us, having found a company we trust, stick to it. Our ability to overcome the known shortcomings of a product can sometimes be more important than the shortcomings themselves. I sometimes feel rather sorry for review sites. The amount of effort involved in providing a comprehensive review these days is high. And then someone inevitably comes along to point out a 1% difference in measurements between this or that site. It is bewildering.</p>