Don't ask what camera to buy.....

[samm]

Nikon & Nikon,Is there anything else?

:lmao::lmao::lmao:

Just buy a D4 and be done with it ,With prime glass .

 

[manaheim]

As I understand it, many people who search the interwebs wind up here because there's a lot of these kinds of questions here.

Keep in mind what keeps this forum up and running is that it's a business.

You can participate in the continuing success in the forum by participating in those threads (so we all continue to have a home), or if/when you lose patience for it, you can just do like I do an abstain from reading those posts.

This is a BIG statement coming from me, btw. Those of you who know me well know this.

 

[HughGuessWho100 15]

Just always recommend the most expensive Nikon or Canon body with every lens made. That should cover the range pretty well.

I agree with EIngerson. Do your own homework and decide for yourself, THEN ask if the camera you picked will fit your perceived needs.

Oh, and add flashes and tripods to the list as well.

Especially the "Best tripod with head for under $100" question...:x

 

[runnah]

As I understand it, many people who search the interwebs wind up here because there's a lot of these kinds of questions here.

Keep in mind what keeps this forum up and running is that it's a business.

You can participate in the continuing success in the forum by participating in those threads (so we all continue to have a home), or if/when you lose patience for it, you can just do like I do an abstain from reading those posts.

This is a BIG statement coming from me, btw. Those of you who know me well know this.

I hope you dropped a mic right after you posted this.

 

[manaheim]

I had to go look that term up.

 

[manaheim]

Anyway, no... honestly I'm not sure why we're hush-hush about this... maybe we're not and I don't know... maybe we are and I just committed some huge error and you'll all find my body dead out back sometime tomorrow... but it seems logical to me to explain the reasons behind the tolerance of certain repeat topics since it becomes a cause of so much frustration for folks... and since it's a pretty reasonable and understandable explanation.



Hey...


Who's that dark-coated man standing outside in my driveway?

 

[runnah]

Anyway, no... honestly I'm not sure why we're hush-hush about this... maybe we're not and I don't know... maybe we are and I just committed some huge error and you'll all find my body dead out back sometime tomorrow... but it seems logical to me to explain the reasons behind the tolerance of certain repeat topics since it becomes a cause of so much frustration for folks... and since it's a pretty reasonable and understandable explanation.

Hey...

Who's that dark-coated man standing outside in my driveway?

These threads are the fertilizer that allows the forum to grow strong and eventually bear the fruit of a good thread every so often.

Then of course the farmer comes and cuts that fruit right off the vine just when it was about to become ripe and they crush it under their boot.

 

[manaheim]

Wow.

Drama much?

 

[runnah]

Wow.

Drama much?

Well every crop does have its pests.

 

[manaheim]

hahahah.

Ummm.... noted.

 

[runnah]

hahahah.

Ummm.... noted.

Like a rabbit perhaps...

Plot twist!!

 

[Overread19 7]

"What camera to buy" as a question on its own without context or further explanation is a BAD question.
If a person tries to google it they'll end up here - on TPF where we (friendly nice members) can help them in the most important part. Not choosing, but actually first helping them develop and ask the right question.

We can all say "go google it" or "work it out yourself" but its important to realise that when one is starting out the key part is just finding out the right question to ask. Until they do that they'll be lost in a sea of opinions and answers that won't make much if any sense to them.

As members we can help them find their way. We can ask them what budget - what do they want to do with the camera - what their long and short term ideas are. We can propose to the user questions and through those questions get them to open up about themselves a little more. This not only helps them start to socialise with the forum, but also means that they start to begin asking the right questions. From asking those questions they can find answers from themselves - and from there they can start to sift through the reviews, opinions, shop staff statments, models etc.... and start to work out what might be a good choice for them.




And yes some of you are capable of self researching nearly anything you wish to know. You have gained the skills and understanding sufficiently to do so. Be Proud of that skill, but also be not selfish in helping others develop that skill (and it is indeed a skill). You can't learn that skill "just by googling it" and the term "just research it" is off-handed and short - it gives no actual material to work from (for a person who can research will have already done so).

Also accept that asking people (as a social creature we humans are) IS part of research for many people. If I were to seriously learn physics I'd start by researching and part of that would be asking really dumb/basic questions to other people who are more advanced in physics than myself to support and help guide my own research.

Who's that dark-coated man standing outside in my driveway?

That would be Mike

He's Big

He - takes care of problems

 

[IByte]

No. Different people ask questions at different times and for different reasons. It's a good idea for them to ask people what camera they need for certain needs and so on. Bad thread.

Not if people don't give you a budget, genre or long term goals.

 

[manaheim]

Mike... looks vaguely like Hagrid.

 

[Overread19 7]

No. Different people ask questions at different times and for different reasons. It's a good idea for them to ask people what camera they need for certain needs and so on. Bad thread.

Not if people don't give you a budget, genre or long term goals.

Sometimes the right question to ask in the short term is the wrong question to ask in the long term -- but it is only by asking the right question in the short term that the person then can be led or aided in finding the right question to ask in the long term. Ergo the question "what camera should I buy" is still a "bad question" on its own - but its the right question for some at the beginning to ask to then be led on further.


In the end the key to remember is that no one on the TPF website, forum, staff, world - has any demand over you that you answer any question on the site. You need not participate in any thread here at all if you do not wish to. AS such if you see a question you don't like you can walk on by. Leave it for others to answer if they so choose and focus your energies on those aspects you wish to engage and promote in the society that you are a part of here. This structure allows a single forum to service many sub-communities all at the same time and thus allows for a richness in diversity of our membership.