Karel Geertsem
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 p.9 #12 · Digital-Picture review ZE 100 MP lens | |
Can we agree on the following:
There are extremely good photographers (I am not one of them, unfortunately), who produce amazing work with a wide variety of gear.
Right now, my PERSONAL favorite place to find them is:
http://1x.com/photos
And here the trouble starts: no-one, not even museum (or art gallery) curators really knows what is best, or even what is 'art'; they all disagree to a certain extend. E.g. for many 1x.com would be considered as mainstream, not art, not experimental enough. I bet you all have your personal favorite photographer(s). Kinda weird that no-one here seems to claim "my personal favorite photographer is better than yours, and I feel terribly insulted when someone else says "no-MY personal favorite photographer is better than yours"". I bet this happens a lot in "art-circles" though.
Now, if any reader/contributor here can lay out a scientifically sound way to test which photo, which photographer is the best, I would be very interested 
Now, to make matters even worse, there is GEAR. And here, on this "second level of religious wars", we see this thread.
Some people here seem to be really, REALLY insulted when homebody says: "X is my favorite lens", while their own favorite lens is Y. So they start a discussion: "prove it to me that yours is bigger, eh, better than mine". Which leads nowhere of course, since "your test is fundamentally flawed", is the comment on almost anybody here who tries and dares to publish a test, and hardly anybody owns comparable lenses of many different brands.
Is owning gear really a worthwhile competition?
For most pieces of gear I have ever owned, I have read some-to-many reviews. And they all differed to some extent. And after buying and using the gear I have always found both good and bad things, important for ME, that were not mentioned in any of the reviews.
So my wish for all of us here would be that we would accept that we all have our personal preferences, needs, depth of wallets and whatnot. Plus, these preferences will most likely change over time. Let's be open to the full width of the range of gear available, and learn from others, to figure out what works when for you and accept that not everything can be measured.
Making another gear choice is not meant as a personal insult or an insult of one's photography. Should every man/woman (pick your preference) in a 5.000 km radius be offended that you did not pick him/her as your spouse?
Having said all that, those that read as far as this might wonder what I am doing:
Wishing that the ZE 100 /2 MP was in stock at my friendly local gear pusher... I have some money burning a hole in my pocket since I sold my Canon 100 / 2.8 L IS three days ago....  , I could tell you why, but it would be o so very unscientific.
Peace to you all!
P.S.: I have owned gear from Pentax, Canon, Sigma, Tamron and, yes, Zeiss, so call me a fanboy of trying and learning something new!
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