No more sweeping statements from me then
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I recall way back, stating there was no reason for lusting after a D700.... ehem.... looking to replace the D300 with another one this year....and I said the same about the D800 this morning....will I ever learn? :bonk: 
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Hahaha I once told everyone who'd ask that I hated studio photography & would never bother with it & now that I've left college, I'm eager to find or build a new studio space because I miss working in there! I dread to think how much my tastes have changed in comparison to my past statements 
>:} Lets just say that us photographers 'develop' over time eh?
>:} Lets just say that us photographers 'develop' over time eh?
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Said a while back to a mate that this pixel race was a waste of time as 6 Mg
Pixels was plenty.
Started using the D70s (6Mg) on some low light shots the other day and now find it wanting.
To be fair the pixel count isn't to blame for the low light performance, it's just the old sensor tech.
As for myself, something similar happened a few weeks ago. I said I don't think I'd be buying a 35mm lens for my M4 any time soon, lo and behold a 35/1.2 turns up on my doorstep a few weeks ago.
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Hahaha I once told everyone who'd ask that I hated studio photography & would never bother with it & now that I've left college, I'm eager to find or build a new studio space because I miss working in there! I dread to think how much my tastes have changed in comparison to my past statements
>:} Lets just say that us photographers 'develop' over time eh?
I havnt set foot in a studio for years,same with a darkroom.
But keep thinking about a darkroom
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the 512k expansion memory pack that slid in under the Amiga 500 was slightly larger than todays 3.5" hard drives!!!
(and yup, anyone how had it was just showing off) lol
(and yup, anyone how had it was just showing off) lol
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But keep thinking about a darkroom
Mmm, I've recently done the same & just invested in all the home dev'ing equipment. Just waiting on my changing bag & then I can start processing films I've shot recently. Actually, I think this might be another thing I said I'd never attempt.
About 10 years ago I announced "It'll be at least 15 years before I even think about getting a digital camera."
A year later I bought one and have been digital ever since.
Last year it was "You'll never get me on facebook..." Guess who was wrong again.
A year later I bought one and have been digital ever since.
Last year it was "You'll never get me on facebook..." Guess who was wrong again.
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Oh how I remember the days of sitting there, programming my Commodore Vic 20 and being oh so jealous of the friends that had spectrums or the commodore 64!Back with cameras, I also remember the idea of poo pooing studio lighting.... and a year later.....YEP! I had the kit :bonk: Mind you, as time has gone on, a few years later I now realise it isn't the lighting thing I didn't like, that was just technical fear, I have drifted back to preferring a more natural environment and using artificial light to enhance that where necessary rather the piddling around with backdrops, etc. So maybe that sweeping statement wasn't so far off the mark afterall
Edit: OK, skim links really do make me giggle, who would have thought 'poo pooing' would link to something - I was going to edit it to add an 'h' or two until I saw the link appear
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I spent years saying that god killed a kitten every time someone bought an Apple product.
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Went to an IT college in '95/'96 and we were building PCs for fun. General spec was 386/486SX processors, 400mb HDDs and 4MB RAM which was about par for the time.
Got my first job in May 1996, building/repairing PCs and this consultant guy came in to help us spec up new PCs for our internal network, he casually chucked in "I think we should look at having 1 gig hard drives in all of them"
The look on everyone's faces was a picture Why on earth would we need 1GB HDDs I asked............ Says he that now owns just over 4TB of storage
Same sort of thing with cameras though, first digital camera I had circa 1999 was 1.3MP and ate 4AA batteries quicker than you could reload them. Jump forward 12 years to when I purchased my 7D that has 19MP and a battery that will last 600+ shots it's a completely different World!!
Got my first job in May 1996, building/repairing PCs and this consultant guy came in to help us spec up new PCs for our internal network, he casually chucked in "I think we should look at having 1 gig hard drives in all of them"
The look on everyone's faces was a picture
Why on earth would we need 1GB HDDs I asked............ Says he that now owns just over 4TB of storage Same sort of thing with cameras though, first digital camera I had circa 1999 was 1.3MP and ate 4AA batteries quicker than you could reload them. Jump forward 12 years to when I purchased my 7D that has 19MP and a battery that will last 600+ shots it's a completely different World!!
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theres plenty of statements that you make that you look back on and think, duh!!
I mean look at all the statements everyone made about how unsuccessful the ipad was going to be when it got released. Most of them are now eating humble pie.
I remember telling my dad that beer was horrible, and now it's a staple!
I mean look at all the statements everyone made about how unsuccessful the ipad was going to be when it got released. Most of them are now eating humble pie.
I remember telling my dad that beer was horrible, and now it's a staple!
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Actually that reminds me of another one of mine "Don't bother with an iPod, you can get a lot better MP3 players, all you're doing is paying for the name".
That was until yours truly got fed up with the cack interface of his Creative MP3 player, looked at the price of higher capacity units and realised that £150 for 80GB was a lot cheaper than the £60 he'd paid for the 4GB Creative piece of junk. Not to mention how much easier it was to manage nearly 200GB of music through iTunes :bonk:
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As it happens, a new member has just revived an old thread I'd posted in. So I look back to see what it was I said in March 2010.......
All my lights are now Profoto.....oops!
pretty sure I used to say the same thing.... then I used them...
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I remember swapping an Amiga A600 for an Amiga A1200, which was a full 2Mb ram and a floppy disc drive and more processing power than NASA had for the moon landing in 1969. I got a 256Mb hard drive for it and had far more programs on it than I have on my PC now, and still hadn't filled half the drive. When I got my first PC a couple of years later, which was a Pentium 333Mhz, 64Mb RAM, 8Mb Graphics and a 6Gb hard drive and a CD Rom. All topped of with a 14" CRT monitor and it cost £833.
The first CD writer I got was a HP 4x reader/writer and it cost £252 and my first digital camera was an Olympus C-820L in 1997 (specs here http://www.olympus.co.uk/consumer/208_C-820L.htm) which cost £399 and all the time I was thinking "it'll never get any better than this".
When I think of how much money I've spent on computers and cameras since about 1995 it scares me half to death. It must be thousands, I would of been a rich man if I'd invested it all instead.
The first CD writer I got was a HP 4x reader/writer and it cost £252 and my first digital camera was an Olympus C-820L in 1997 (specs here http://www.olympus.co.uk/consumer/208_C-820L.htm) which cost £399 and all the time I was thinking "it'll never get any better than this".
When I think of how much money I've spent on computers and cameras since about 1995 it scares me half to death. It must be thousands, I would of been a rich man if I'd invested it all instead.
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To be fair the pixel count isn't to blame for the low light performance, it's just the old sensor tech.
As for myself, something similar happened a few weeks ago. I said I don't think I'd be buying a 35mm lens for my M4 any time soon, lo and behold a 35/1.2 turns up on my doorstep a few weeks ago.
Thats put me in my place,:bonk:
A 35mm in a box ? with a note,please give me a home ?
The wife might believe you ,but :shake:we don't :nono:
