Worst Photographic Buzzword

[Bob Salomon]

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Yep. There's a downside, which is that dreck will be preserved for posterity.

Collodion plates seem pretty long lived, but they were such a bear to make that most were pretty well thought out. I think.

The only art proved to be archival are cave and rock paintings.

[Sirius Glass]

I never liked the term "available light". I think what's available depends on how many lights you own, or can rent.
Existing Light makes way more sense. At least that's what Arnold Newman told me, and he used available light all the time.
-Rob

Available light to me is NOT lighting equipment that I could drag in. It is the light found at the location where I am shooting. The example was taken using a tripod, no additional lighting was brought in by me or used by me. Any troglodyte can drag around lighting equipment, it takes a REAL photographer to use only what is available at the scene! ROTFLMAOHMHOTD!!!

Steve

[Robert Brummitt]

I guess then John Sexton is not a photographer. He tells a story of pulling a flash from his bag to use as a fill light. As he says, "It's available light. It was in my camera bag."

[Tony Evans]

Buzzword

[Sirius Glass]

Robert, I knew that I could count on you to cover my back.

Steve

[Don Dudenbostel]

Shutterbug.

[Alan Davenport]

Why not? There are zoom lenses, varifocal lenses and prime lenses. These are terms that have been in use for decades in photography. But more common in movies and video then in still work.

There are zooms, varifocals and fixed focal lengths. ALL are prime lenses, when you add a supplementary lens, such as a closeup diopter, or reverse another lens for an ultra closeup. Single-focal-length lenses were simply "lenses" until somebody stole or misused a perfectly good technical term for something it didn't mean.

[Bob Salomon]

There are zooms, varifocals and fixed focal lengths. ALL are prime lenses, when you add a supplementary lens, such as a closeup diopter, or reverse another lens for an ultra closeup. Single-focal-length lenses were simply "lenses" until somebody stole or misused a perfectly good technical term for something it didn't mean.

Fixed are primes, zooms are not primes. Simple as that. To either you can add auxiallary lenses. So Aux. lenses can be added to your prime lens or to your zoom lens.

Really is quite simple.

[Alan Davenport]

Fixed are primes, zooms are not primes. Simple as that. To either you can add auxiallary lenses. So Aux. lenses can be added to your prime lens or to your zoom lens.

Really is quite simple.

What we have here, is an example of language evolving. I can't argue that the word is used as you say, now. It wasn't always that way.

Sadly, you've gone over to the dark side...

[tom thomas]

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