Peter and Anders are you two trying to torture me? It's working.
First Peter showing those shots on the 1DX with 50 and 200. What am I missing from that holy trinity of yours? 1DX..... with shots like that I am begining to feel the power of the 1DX force Master Yoda.........
Anders I liked the shot. Now I see your shot is with the only Zeiss lens not in my collection
You guys are gonna make me broke if you keep this up, Must resist the temptation...
Dan, I'm with you (it's not 3D). But I just chalk it up to a sort of socio-linguistic turn towards hyperbole that pervades pop culture. I think it has a LOT to do with modern marketing (as in the last 50 years), consumerism, and marketing-lingo.
But that's not a battle we're going to win in a thread like this. This decadent sort of linguistic bent is just how things are going; the overemphasis results in the loss of meaning from specific, often technical terms. Soon, everything is 3D (think what Picasso would say about this... or did), and nothing is 3D.
There are some parallels to terms like 4G in wireless networking. It does have a very specific meaning, but its use is wide and loose and inaccurate. But it sells! Same with the word "instant" as used in selling food items. It doesn't mean quickly; it means in a single moment.
That said-- it's good for those true believers to hear our quibbles from time to time (and it probably makes us feel better)-- and at least we can even understand what it is they are talking about (though we disagree with the term), and even participate.
For the record: I also argue against the use of "enormity" for big, "decimate" for devastate, and "irregardless" for anything.
That drink looks like it has three dimensions! But isn't a "shot" strictly another kind of drink?
I am typing this answer on a PC. No, wait, it is strictly not a Personal Computer. It belongs to a company. And it is definitely not the product from IBM that originally got the trademark "PC".
...think we need to learn how to photographically emulate how the eye sees and the brain automatically processes if we want to fool ourselves and others with imagery on one plane.
It's working.
