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Has anyone else noticed how the stupidest people are relatively easy to spot and ignore, and the smartest people are also easy to reason with, but the half-educated, pseudo-intellectuals who have gotten a hold of some interesting factoid and become irrationally obsessed with it are the most annoying? Pic related is a pretty good illustration of how these "conversations" usually go. Let's take a look at some of the common calling cards of the photography midwit:
>canon "banding"/"chroma noise"
Some people saw a severely underexposed image taken with a 5DII that was badly processed in Lightroom and they think that this has any relevance to normal photography. The number of times you'll be underexposing photos by 5 stops with the intention of pushing shadows in Lightroom is rare. You can go your entire life without needing to do it. Newbies see midwits getting emotional about the subject and they get very confused.
>sony "colors are bad"
This means literally nothing, since you should always be shooting in raw.
>fujifilm "worms"
The number of examples I've seen posted showing this almost exceeds the number of shots I took with the Fuji I used to own, from which I saw zero shots displaying "worms." I think you actually have to slide the sharpness slider to 100 in order for the worms to show up, but I honestly don't know and I have to take people's word that the example photos they post are genuine. There are many reasons to avoid Fuji; this is not one of them.
>nikon "is going out of business"
Just because they closed a Japanese factory doesn't mean they are going out of business. They already made most of their lenses abroad. Now they will merely make all of their products abroad. Nikon cameras will continue to be around for a long time.
>pentax "is a dead brand"
Pentax was simply bought out by Ricoh, but Ricoh is doing fine financially and plans to continue to make, and even update, these lenses and cameras. They just do it on a slower schedule.
