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carstenw wrote:
RustyBug wrote:
Okay ... but I still don\'t get what was so compelling to state that it wasn\'t alt, as the poster was clear as to which lens he used, non-alt as it may / may not be. (I\'m assuming you were referring to the Nikon 24-70) ... but when someone uses a Nikon 105/2.5 AIS or 28/2.8 AIS or 24/2.0 AIS, they get heralded as \"alt\" ... yet are still Nikon brand?
You make two separate points here.
The discussion as to what lenses are alt has come up a few times, and I don\'t recall any fundamental disagreement with calling lenses alt which are either not Canon or Nikon, or not modern AF lenses. This is IMO the best way to resolve this issue since otherwise AI-S lenses, for example, would be alt on Canon but not on Nikon. It is almost as if Nikon was punished for remaining backwards compatible rather than shafting their user base like Canon did, a ridiculous situation at best. The line was drawn at AF, AF-D and AF-S lenses. A Canon user could conceivably use a Nikon AF-D lens as a manual lens, since there is an aperture ring, but a Nikon user could no longer really call it alt. Some of Nikon\'s lenses are still AF-D today.
As to why I called it out, I don\'t like seeing more and more non-alt photos here. The whole point, as the name \"Alternative Gear & Lenses\" makes clear, is to get away from the Canon and Nikon dominant photography scenes and see what else is out there. When people start creating threads where anything goes we are already slipping. I mean, what do you think the reaction would be like if I went to the Canon forum and started a Nikon thread? It wouldn\'t be pretty. My \"but it isn\'t alt\" comment was quite inside the lines of the reasonable, I think, obik\'s over-reaction notwithstanding.
Conventionally, one would use a wider angle lens to get the AOV of a pano. Unconventionally, one uses a lens of a more narrow focal length, takes multiple images and stitches them together ... as an alternative (read as \"unconventional\") lens solution, regardless of brand. I don\'t see how that is violation of the rules of the forum ... at least not to the degree it requires a callout ... particularly in this thread. 
There is nothing magical about this thread, other than Jim, bless his heart, made a special comment calling for neutrality from anti Canon-Canon post biases, and let Nikon-Nikon in at the same time. All techniques are available to all systems, and no technique is more alt than any other. Whenever anyone is in doubt why this forum exists, they should just look at the name: \"Alternative Gear & Lenses\", and all becomes clear. It is not about technique.
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Well said, I agree to the letter.
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