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dcjs wrote:
This is still, at it's core, a gear-related forum and I come here to learn about the capabilities of alternative photographic gear. If I see some great images in the process like Philipps - all the better, but if that was my only goal, I'd be wrong in a gear-related forum. I personally find it very annoying when people don't include basic equipment information even in clearly gear-specific threads, and I find it very nice of Phillip to not only include it, but also be such a perfectionist about it.
Oh yeah, for a gear forum I agree, I shoot with 100% alt lenses so I understand. But usually what I would do in that case is indicate what was used outside the image itself (such as in the message body) and leave the image itself unadulterated. Sometimes I may cross-post to another forum (and not necessarily on FM) that's more focusing on the artistic aspects, and in those cases I wouldn't want people to get distracted from composition details with too much text. And then for the gear forum where composition isn't the point, I write it at the top of the message or similar.
I guess also because all my gear is really alt, I don't even have a single chipped lens, nothing ever records the EXIF correctly (all my images read 50mm f/0 ...), so I just wipe it completely. 99.99% of the time I can tell by looking at my images which lenses I used, at least because every time I go out I don't carry more than 2-3 lenses at once so I usually remember easily based on what the picture is of, even if it's years ago. If it's a gear forum I'll indicate, and if it's an artistic forum I don't.
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