Gripes.

[sanj]

What is you reoccurring, favorite gripe on this forum? This is more for fun, not to get into a particular debate or put anyone down.
It would be nice to know what you feel.

The gripe that comes to my mind at this point is "More DR is for people who do not expose properly."

Anything comes to your mind?

 

[Mt Spokane Photography]

Why is that a gripe? A gripe might be someone unhappy with a feature, or wanting a new feature that is missing.

People are griping that there is not enough DR. No one gripes or complains that we have enough.

Griping is OK. But playing it back over and over, inserting a gripe into unrelated topics, that is what I find irritating, not the gripe itself.

 

[Orangutan]

When it's assumed or implied that anyone who doesn't agree with a particular gripe is uninformed/unintelligent, trolling or shilling.

 

[Valvebounce]

Hi Folks.
The thing I dislike most is when a post degenerates in to a slanging match between two people both absolutely certain they are correct, the posts get longer and longer and more venomous and any information pertinent to the thread is lost in the personal attacks.
Fortunately this is a pretty rare occurrence and in general this forum is a pleasant place to visit with a wealth of knowledge freely shared.
I think my photography has improved, and if it has it is solely down to the members of the forum sharing the techniques to facilitate this, so thank you.

Cheers, Graham.

 

[sanj]

EVF is useless and OVF will be superior for ever.

 

[AvTvM]

EVF is useless and OVF will be superior for ever.

above statement is "eternal, self-evident truth", not a gripe. ;D

just joking!

 

[jd7]

In no particular order ...

Canon is doomed / Canon's sensors are useless - because they are not the market leader in terms of DR at low ISO. (*Note: I agree more DR is good, all else being equal.)

A lens (or whatever) made of plastic automatically has inferior build quality to one made of metal.

Having to AFMA a lens indicates the lens is poor quality / an AFMA setting found to be required for a particular person's particular lens/camera combination is evidence of lens quality.

 

[wsmith96]

Why isn't Canon using Sony, Nikon, blah blah blah parts, technology etc. It's a canon forum and there is no one on here who could answer those questions, though some think they can.

 

[scyrene]

The word "mirrorslapper".

But I actually like most of it - I enjoy the bitching, arguing (up to a point), etc.

 

[sanj]

Yep, "Canon is doomed' has to be one of them.

 

[sanj]

EVF is useless and OVF will be superior for ever.

above statement is "eternal, self-evident truth", not a gripe. ;D

just joking!

hahahaha

 

[distant.star]

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I don't know about "favorite," but the most annoying to me is that Sigma (and other 3rd party) lenses are automatically inferior and can't reliably focus. Canon lenses, on the other hand are always perfect (at least after a long, sunny afternoon of AFMA treatment!).

 

[sanj]

On camera flash is just worthless!

 

[unfocused]

Those who take tiny, almost insignificant differences between brands and magnify them into market changing impacts: Canon is behind on metric A, therefore Canon is doomed.

Related – those who take one metric and generalize across the technology: Canon has less dynamic range at base ISO, therefore Canon sensors are terrible.

People who do something stupid or unethical, start a thread about it, expect everyone to say "poor, poor baby," and then get angry and belligerent when people disagree. Among my favorites: The guy who took his new 6D out on a speedboat in the pouring rain and then was shocked that it quit working; the guy who talked a wedding photographer into letting him tag along as a second shooter and then undermined the photographer by showing the bride his "better" pictures, the guy who took a picture of an iconic building and fountain on a private school campus, tried to sell prints on the internet and was shocked that the college told him it violated their licensing requirements. Related to this are the people who have bad experience with a vendor (Canon or others), write in to the forum to complain and then get upset when others who have had good experiences with the same vendor say so. Here's a hint: if you want sympathy, tell your Mom, not an internet forum.

The terms "Fanboy" or worse yet "Fanboi." For everyone's information, one you use either of these terms, you are conceding that you can't win the argument with logic, so you have to resort to name calling.

"Experts" who write long treatises of technical gobbledygook that are more about showing off their superior knowledge than actually enlightening anyone. (Note: these experts are frequently proven wrong when Canon accomplishes things they have said are impossible.)

Condescending posts that imply that the writer has higher standards than others on this forum and therefore they can't possible be satisfied with technology that 99% of users find just fine.

Art critics whose entire experience consists of buying an Ansel Adams calendar once a year. They take great pride in their ignorance and insist that established artists lack talent and vision.

Is that enough?

 

[Sporgon]

The word "mirrorslapper".

Agreed. I wonder, if the reflex was invented to day, in its present form, just what people would be saying about a viewing system that requires no power and shows everything in real-time.

 

[unfocused]

The word "mirrorslapper".

Agreed. I wonder, if the reflex was invented to day, in its present form, just what people would be saying about a viewing system that requires no power and shows everything in real-time.

+1

 

[AvTvM]

The word "mirrorslapper".

Agreed. I wonder, if the reflex was invented to day, in its present form, just what people would be saying about a viewing system that requires no power and shows everything in real-time.

I call a spade a spade. And any mirrorflipping camera is a just mirrorslapper. I'll definitely continue my tradition of calling early 20th century patents what they are: totally anachronistic mechanical contraptions. Moveable parts when all that needs to be movin' are photons and electrons. Yikes! 8)

 

[scyrene]

The word "mirrorslapper".

Agreed. I wonder, if the reflex was invented to day, in its present form, just what people would be saying about a viewing system that requires no power and shows everything in real-time.

I call a spade a spade. And any mirrorflipping camera is a just mirrorslapper. I'll definitely continue my tradition of calling early 20th century patents what they are: totally anachronistic mechanical contraptions. Moveable parts when all that needs to be movin' are photons and electrons. Yikes! 8)

Well the inference that anything old is bad is stupid. Are aircraft anachronisms? Definitely don't drive cars either, or ride trains - those are 19thC inventions! And don't read books - even older! And don't use fire for anything, or metals, or live in houses. Um...

 

[Sporgon]

The word "mirrorslapper".

Agreed. I wonder, if the reflex was invented to day, in its present form, just what people would be saying about a viewing system that requires no power and shows everything in real-time.

I call a spade a spade. And any mirrorflipping camera is a just mirrorslapper. I'll definitely continue my tradition of calling early 20th century patents what they are: totally anachronistic mechanical contraptions. Moveable parts when all that needs to be movin' are photons and electrons. Yikes! 8)

Well the inference that anything old is bad is stupid. Are aircraft anachronisms? Definitely don't drive cars either, or ride trains - those are 19thC inventions! And don't read books - even older! And don't use fire for anything, or metals, or live in houses. Um...

Don't worry, we'll send AvTvM an old Pentax 6x7. The mirror action in that thing is guaranteed to drive him insane.

 

[Don Haines]

On camera flash is just worthless!

On camera flash IS worthless..... there is absolutely no reason why anyone would ever use it.... unless you didn't bring/have an external flash, in which case on-camera flash is wonderful

My gripe is about people complaining how fragile tilt/swivel screens are, yet I can't recall a single person on the forum who ever broke one.....