Useless or absurd accessories

[surapon]

I do not know about other people, however, for me it seems very strange that all the time you refer to others as "Dear Sir, Mr. XXXX". I understand that you come from Asia where politeness is a must

I don't recon him to be a fool, he's certainly aware that it's not a necessity in *international* discussions - but international doesn't necessarily mean anglo-american, we just happen to write english here since because most people understand it. Personally I find it great that he's sticking to his style, he certainly has found it at his age and has every right to do so... and a personal style is what every good photographer should wish for.

For me, it's very nice to have such a diverse community and if there is something to be understandingly annoyed about, it's certainly not members being *too* polite. You might want to try polite next time and could try to send him your suggestion as a personal message and not in public?

+1
I like the style he speaks/types with.

+1 thank you. let's keep from random unrelated comments..

back to the topic... there are those "useless" or "absurd" things associated with camera gear on photojojo.com. XD have to admit, some of the stuff are on my wishlist!!

Thanks, cellomaster27---Thanks for your comments.
Surapon

 

[privatebydesign]

Surapon,

Do whatever you feel comfortable with. When I lived in Thailand I really struggled with the language, I just don't get tonal based languages, and I am very sure I was most inappropriate on many occasions, however even when I was nobody ever corrected me in public. It is a shame we failed to extend the same courtesy.

But you are amongst friends and you are most welcome to treat us as such.

 

[surapon]

+1 thank you. let's keep from random unrelated comments..

Another +1 anyway. It needs to be said loudly and clearly - you don't knock people for having manners and style. But I'll edit the quote to add less scrolling

Well, Dear Rat-------In my Architectural/ Engineer business---The Real Friend must tell the truth, nothing but the truth , to his friend, That I very Honor to Efca76, who he speak from his heart.
Thanks for your comments.
Surapon

 

[surapon]

Surapon,

Do whatever you feel comfortable with. When I lived in Thailand I really struggled with the language, I just don't get tonal based languages, and I am very sure I was most inappropriate on many occasions, however even when I was nobody ever corrected me in public. It is a shame we failed to extend the same courtesy.

But you are amongst friends and you are most welcome to treat us as such.

No, No, No, Dear privatebydesign------I feel very honor to Efca76---He speak from his heart, From Friend to friend. Yes, From Now, I change the way that I talk and post, as from friend to friend.
Thanks again for your concern. Wow , You use to live in Thailand, What part of Thailand ?---I came from North eastern Part of Thailand, The Area that we call our self = Khon E-Sarn./ People of E-Sarn
Nice to talk to you.
Surapon

 

[Hillsilly]

It's not just an Asian thing. Recently I've been working with some 60 to 80 year old US Cotton Industry specialists (Cotton graders and cotton mill set up advisers) who have been working in Qld, Australia. Those guys are THE most polite and thoughtful people I've ever met.

I've got a whole cupboard full of useless things. Will list some tonight.

 

[Rienzphotoz]

For me, it's very nice to have such a diverse community and if there is something to be understandingly annoyed about, it's certainly not members being *too* polite. You might want to try polite next time and could try to send him your suggestion as a personal message and not in public?

+1
I like the style he speaks/types with.

+ 1 ... Surapon is a very polite gentleman ... I only feel embarrassed when he calls me Sir, because he is almost 20 years older than me (and I feel I don't deserve to be called a "sir"). That being said, it should be we, who should be calling him sir as a sign of respect for a senior person ... I know it is not fashionable in some parts of the world to show respect to seniors ... but there is nothing to be annoyed about his style of writing/typing ... he probably experienced more in life, than all of us while we were still running around in diapers.

 

[Rienzphotoz]

Surapon,

Do whatever you feel comfortable with. When I lived in Thailand I really struggled with the language, I just don't get tonal based languages, and I am very sure I was most inappropriate on many occasions, however even when I was nobody ever corrected me in public. It is a shame we failed to extend the same courtesy.

But you are amongst friends and you are most welcome to treat us as such.

+1 ... on several occasions in the far east when I did something that was not culturally correct, I was only corrected in private while no one was around or looking, and that too very politely. But I still remember a woman from a "developed" country, (while I was buying some Christmas deco) told me that I would never be invited at her house with that deco ... I didn't even know the lady and there were 5 people between her and me at the billing counter (where I was paying for the deco), yet she felt the need to "express her feelings" at the top of her voice about some items a random guy was buying ... I wanted to tell her that "in my house, we welcome everyone for Christmas" but I just smiled and left.

 

[Botts]

Surapon,

I greatly appreciate your personality on the forum. You are one of say 4 people I can think of by name that really make me visit canonrumors forum on a regular basis.

Please feel free to address me however you feel comfortable. I would much rather see the members of the canonrumors forum be comfortable expressing themselves vs adopting a different personality for the forum.

From my perspective, I associate you with true, sage advice, and a formal delivery. I appreciate your uniqueness.

Marsu, neuro, and Rienz all have their associated uniqueness as well, and I believe it adds strength to the forum.

I struggle in my day job to address people formally as Mr./Ms./Miss etc. it has just been so missing in Canada that I have lost using formality as a habit. Every time I saw you refer to someone as say Mr. Marsu, it helped reinforce it for me as well.

That being said, if you are comfortable addressing us as friends, feel free to address me as Brian. I would be honoured to be considered even an acquaintance of yours.

tl;dr Everyone be who you are! Exemplify your uniqueness, that is what makes us artists!

As Dr. Seuss once said, "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."



Back to the items at hand, I would probably add these to the list of useless accessories.

Popup flash diffuser. Save the money and buy a used 430EX II.
The White Balance Filter or Expodisc - This is why we shoot RAW. So we don't have to use goofy things like this. If you are really concerned with colour balance just buy an X-rite ColorChecker card and use that.

 

[Hjalmarg1]

The most useless accessories I have: memory wallets (I have two), filters wrenchs and 40mm f2.8 lens hood.

 

[mackguyver]

The most useless accessories I have: memory wallets (I have two), filters wrenchs and 40mm f2.8 lens hood.

Forgot about the filter wrenches - they are worthless! Pipe wrenches, jar openers, rubber bands, and 100 other things all work better!

 

[surapon]

Thousand Thanks to all of my friends and members of CR.
Yes, You , all, make my day in every days-when I open and read the posts in CR.--Not Only I appreciate the warmth of friends to friends talk and recommendation, But Also I learn the new ideas, new tricks from every one, every posts---small or big ideas.
Now, about time that we can talk about the rumors/ Functions/ Tricks of our love equipment, both PRO and Hobby.
Have a great day.
Your friend.
Surapon.

 

[surapon]

The most useless accessories I have: memory wallets (I have two), filters wrenchs and 40mm f2.8 lens hood.

+ 1 for me , for Filter wrenches.
Surapon

 

[surapon]

The most useless accessories I have: memory wallets (I have two), filters wrenchs and 40mm f2.8 lens hood.

Forgot about the filter wrenches - they are worthless! Pipe wrenches, jar openers, rubber bands, and 100 other things all work better!

Ha, Ha, Ha, Dear mackguyver.
You are right, When I go to buy Filter Wrenches at my friend's Camera shop in my home town, He said to me = Forget it", and he take off his clean shoe ( which have rubber below of the shoe) , and put my lens with stuck filter ( UV Filter) to the rubber sole and turn the Lens = Ha, Ha, Ha---It work, Yes, I save 2 US Dollars. But he tell me as you say, , for Cir PL Filter, We must use the Big size rubber band, And Tell me that---DO NOT USE THE DIRTY/ MUDDY shoe in this case = Prohibit---Ha, Ha, Ha.
Nice to talk to you, Have a great day.
Surapon

 

[Efka76]

Surapon and other colleagues, I am very sorry if I insulted any of you. My mistake was that I did not send a private message but wrote it publicly. I really like this forum due to its international community and very big pool of knowledge. In different cultures there are different perception of politeness. I come from Lithuania where people smile when they are happy and if you see smile you know that it is sincere (usually it is very easy to recognise foreigners in my country as they are smiling most of the time). Mr., Sir, Dear and other names are used more for business or formal matters. I perceive this community as a bunch of friends who share knowledge and communicate. Accordingly, i gave my subjective friendly advice to Surapon. Once more, sorry for inconvenience due to my previous post.

 

[Rienzphotoz]

Surapon and other colleagues, I am very sorry if I insulted any of you. My mistake was that I did not send a private message but wrote it publicly. I really like this forum due to its international community and very big pool of knowledge. In different cultures there are different perception of politeness. I come from Lithuania where people smile when they are happy and if you see smile you know that it is sincere (usually it is very easy to recognise foreigners in my country as they are smiling most of the time). Mr., Sir, Dear and other names are used more for business or formal matters. I perceive this community as a bunch of friends who share knowledge and communicate. Accordingly, i gave my subjective friendly advice to Surapon. Once more, sorry for inconvenience due to my previous post.

Efka76, no issues ... we all live and learn. Have a nice day friend.

 

[Don Haines]

The most useless accessories I have: memory wallets (I have two), filters wrenchs and 40mm f2.8 lens hood.

+ 1 for me , for Filter wrenches.
Surapon

+1 for me also. Got them, carry them, never use them.....

I have a red rubber band on one of my lenses to add friction to stop the zoom from creeping up or down.... it makes a wonderful filter wrench.

 

[Rienzphotoz]

The most useless accessories I have: memory wallets (I have two), filters wrenchs and 40mm f2.8 lens hood.

+ 1 for me , for Filter wrenches.
Surapon

+1 for me also. Got them, carry them, never use them.....

I have a red rubber band on one of my lenses to add friction to stop the zoom from creeping up or down.... it makes a wonderful filter wrench.

Add me to the list of filter wrench cynic's club ;D ... when I recently dropped and my 16-35 L II lens and broke the B+W filter glass and the filter itself got stuck real bad ... to get it out I tried the filter wrenches and they did nothing to it, instead one of the wrenches broke in half.

 

[Vivid Color]

You may add me to the list of disappointed filter wrench owners. The clear filter on one of my lenses got stuck during my trip to Africa. I have been unable to get it off with the filter wrench. I thought perhaps I wasn't applying enough strength. Now I'm thinking I'll just try one of my rubber jar openers. I don't think the filter wrench idea is bad, but I do think the ones I have and maybe those the other posters have are poorly made.

On the other hand, I absolutely love my Think Tank memory wallets. Because I did not take a computer or other storage device along with me when I went to Africa, I took 20 SD cards in addition to the three that were in my three cameras. The two memory wallets I took worked great to keep the cards organized. And the ribbon and clips on them allowed me to attach the wallets to either my belt loops or the camera bag so they couldn't accidentally fall out and get lost. And when I was in my hotel room, I could easily throw the memory wallets into the room safe. Could have I gotten by with putting the memory cards in plastic baggies? Yes, but the memory wallets made everything so much easier and so much more secure. On the other hand, when I go out and I only need to take one or two extra cards, I don't use the memory wallets. By the way, even though my cameras all use SD cards, I buy the wallets for the CF cards. That way, I can keep my cards in the little plastic cases they come in and they still fit into the wallet. And if I ever get a camera that uses CF cards, I can still use the same wallets.

 

[Loswr]

I have a red rubber band on one of my lenses to add friction to stop the zoom from creeping up or down....

Is that really why you have a red rubber band around your lens?

 

[emag]

I'm U.S. born and raised but spent time in the Philippines and am happily married to a wonderful Filipina who supports my photo and astronomy interests. If we were in the Philippines, I would call you "kuya Surapon" and your wife "ate (ahtee - for the longest time my ears heard 'aunty')" out of respect and affection, just as most of her younger friends call me kuya Ed and my wife ate Carol. Write however you want, kuya Surapon.

On topic - a lens brush......what was I thinking? If something doesn't come off with a blower, why on earth would I risk a scratch? Also, one of those smaller camera bags with the shoulder strap, never large enough, a pain to carry and now relegated to carrying accessory cords and whatnot for astro gear.....cameras are carried in a LowPro backpack.