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This was a Poll from another Forum. It was a Poll given by someone who in my opinion has been profoundly and inexorably brainwashed and as a result I felt compelled to leave the following message:
My Heading: Neither...All Of and Anything that Can...
This is a false premise...Most of the present day DSLR's can be used professionally. Whether it is Sony, Nikon, Canon, Pentax, Olympus, Sigma, Leica or Samsung. Ten million pixels is more than enough o be published in all types of magazines as well as most poster formats. I have been published using the Canon 350D, just to prove to myself that it doesn't really matter. I once used a Canon G5 circa 2002-3 5megapixel camera with hot-shoe and RAW capability and was also published with it.
I am fed up with pixel peeping incompetents that spend most of their time scrutinizing the screen on the computer rather than enjoying the act of expression. If what you find joy in is the technical aspects of the anatomy of a camera, perhaps that may be the subject of your post. I can guarantee that if I gave you a 'Blad with a 39 mega pixel back it wouldn't improve on your capacity to express what you are expressing presently and until you understand the need to have "X-Zillion" Pixels, I suggest you spend more time perfecting your art. By doing so you may then ask yourself. Is the tool I am using limiting my capacity to express that which I need to express by being technically substandard? Is it therefore impeding my capacity to express myself? Give me a Nikon, Canon, Pentax, Sony, Leica, Olympus, Sigma or what ever and I will take images that will work because I know the support it will be utilized in.
It is the photographer and not the camera that captures the image. It is through those eyes that we can see a part of the "ID" and what is important to the artist. It is the capturing of that moment that makes the individual unique. The decision as to when one captures the moment is crucial to his/her expression and not with which camera it was taken with.
Benjamin Kanarek
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Quote: I think most of us know that already.
Maybe so, but for every individual who knows, or believes they know that, there seem to be two or three who don't. It's something which I think needs to be reiterated at regular intervals. Buying a Canon/Nikon/whatever isn't going to turn you into a photographer!
Well said, Benjamin.
Doug
I own Pentax cameras, as well as Canon, Contax, Yashica and Fuji.
I don't claim that any of them make me a 'great' photographer in the artistic sense, but between them they do enable me to take fairly accurate representations of my engineering interests.
In fact, I am currently using a small compact for this purpose, the fuji 6.3Mp A610. Easy to carry around, does not attract public attention and does the job.
(No Nikon cameras, despite being the wearer of a beard and sandals! 
)
jas
Someone on this post made an aside something like "Bored Pentax Owner...'Sigh'". This comment is what I would classify as an "Interesting Misconception". This bored Pentax user and believe me, I do not wish to "toot" my horn, won the "Canon" Photographer of the year award for '2005', here in France, although I am of Canadian origin. Has his images at the prestigious "Lumas" galleries worldwide, was shown at the 3rd, 4th and to be shown 5th "Festival of Fashion Photography" in Cannes, France, has won the prestigious "Marie Claire" Gold Medal Award for best advertising campaign of the year for "Lux" soap with the J.W. Thompson Ad Agency.
A bored "Pentax" user who shot the X-Mas World Campaign for "Swarovski" crystal as well as "Dim" and the "Dayton Hudson's" Christmas book with Andy McDowell..
This bored Pentax user has been published world wide since the 80's in Vogue, Elle, L'Officiel, W, Tank, Spoon, ICON etc.etc.etc. Magazines.
No, not really bored as I am a very active working professional photographer who makes his living practicing his art form...Some do and some just watch by the sidelines with nothing more to do than live their lives vicariously through others.
A bored Pentax user who has shot with everything from Sinar to Horseman to 'Blad to Bronica to Mamiya to Pentax 6x7 to Canon to Fuji 6x8 to a cheap disposible cardboard Fuji camera, of which those images were published as a Publi Advertorial campaign in "Italian Vogue".
Pentax user perhaps, but bored..No..
"Me thinks she protests too much"
Benjamin Kanarek
Quote: I am still puzzled as to why Benji made his post in the first placed.
Doesn't he explain that in his first couple of sentences?
Quote: This was a Poll from another Forum. It was a Poll given by someone who in my opinion has been profoundly and inexorably brainwashed and as a result I felt compelled to leave the following message: etc., etc.
... etc., etc.
Seems to me his motivation was to tackle the belief, apparently held by some, that in order to be 'any good', they need to buy a Canon or a Nikon.
Doug
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