Dont be so obsequious.

The quality of photographers these days is so law that I started wishing that the digital age never come.

Today people take 1 second to take a photo and 10 hours on their Photoshop fixing their crippled picture. Their HDRS became more and more disturbing that you start believing in Alien planets.

Today people blame the tools when they miss a shot. What they should of blamed is the fool who actually toke them.

Today people spend hours on the net discussing photography gear and spec and all that crap. But when it comes to actually photography, most of them afraid to pop the cherry.

In the past, photographers didn’t have the luxury of advanced auto focusing. They didn’t have the luxury of choosing their ISO on the fly. They didn’t have the luxury of reviewing their images on the camera. They didn’t have luxury of bursting 10 frames per second because their films only had 35 frames. They didn’t have stabilized lenses. They didn’t have weather sealed bodies. They never had anything like Photoshop. But they produced pictures so perfected that should be framed with gold.

I have a photo wall in my office behind my desk. It contains around 200 images from famous photographers. Only ten of those came from the digital photography era, three of which are portraits for my family.

People these days forgot the sole of photography and ran after gimmick things like “the sound of the shutter”, “the auto HDR technology”, “the feel of the camera”, “the curves on the grip”, “not having dual memory” …etc. It’s like they are going to have sex with it. These days, nobody is looking at the image, everybody is looking at the camera.

Which means I have no waiting for transcoding of 1080p AVCHD files like on the Mac, or any other video format, before you can edit them, and full real time editing and output the Mac Pro can’t even do, right?

Which also means I have HDMI input AND output as well as component, S-Video and composite input and output unlike the Mac Pro, right?

And so you realize I got a Core i7 2.93 Ghz loaded PC, AND the HDSTORM Card & Edius Pro 5 for $500 LESS than a Mac Pro with similar specs (2.93 Ghz Quad Core Xeon) but you dont get any decent HD or video in/outs (except the outdated firewire) nor the real time editing and output and no waiting for trascoding of AVCHD or any other video format that FCP and the Mac can’t do, right?

… and yet Canon sees fit to include an AF-assist light, which is *widely* useful, in their pocket-sized P&S models but not a DSLR at 15x the cost. For an AF-assist light we need what, a full-on 580ex hanging off the top?