Newsgroup: it.arti.fotografia.digitale
Titolo: Measurebators - .... leggere con attenzione ;-)

Some people, the measurebators, never get over this. Their fetish is
to find something technical first so they feel smarter than you. They
aren't photographers. Face it, there has never been a perfect camera
yet. You can't just buy a different product that has all the
advantages of the one you own and also just magically fixes the few
limits you found. Guess what: that other product probably has far more
real problems.
The minor points measurebators find are invisible in photography. The
real issues, like how long does the battery last or if you can find
the power switch, are obvious so the measurebators get no kick out of
pointing them out. You want to see a camera obviously bottom of the
heap? Go look at the specs on the Sigma SD-10. Measurebators do this
fault finding as a hobby, just as archeologists and astronomers love
to find hidden things. Measurebators are not photographers, so if you
want to make pictures you can safely ignore them.
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nota :-)
These men (and they are all men) have no interest in art or
photography because they have no souls. Lacking souls they cannot
express imagination or feeling, which is why their images, if they
ever bother to make any, suck.
Most seem to come from technical avocations, like engineering,
computers and sciences. These people worry so much about trying to put
numerical ratings on things that they are completely oblivious to the
fact that cameras or test charts have nothing to do with the spirit of
an image. Because they worry so much about measuring camera
performance we have dubbed them "Measurbators." Unfortunately, many of
them wander into KenRockwell.com looking for information on camera
performance.
Many of them also play with audio equipment, computers or automobiles.
They enjoy these toys just like their cameras for their own sake, but
rarely if ever actually use them for the intended purposes. 
Younger ones play video games or engage in chat rooms and web surfing.
Older ones join "camera" clubs. (You should join photography clubs,
but never camera clubs or any clubs that try to score art, since art
is entirely subjective and cannot be scored numerically.) Likewise,
these people never create anything notable with any of this other gear
either, but they sure get excited by just having, getting or talking
to you about it.
The one type of gear these people ignore is the only type of gear that
actually helps: lighting.
They are interested solely in equipment for its own sake. They will
talk your ear off for hours if you let them, but as soon as you ask to
see their portfolio their bravado scurries away, or they think you
want to see their cameras or stocks. You can read why cameras simply
don't matter here.
Someone with a decent portfolio is not an equipment measurbator.
Someone with more cameras than decent photos just may be. People with
websites teeming with technical articles but few interesting
photographs probably are.
Do not under any circumstances deal with these people, talk to them,
read their websites or especially ask them for photography advice. To
the innocent they seem like fonts of knowledge, however their sick,
lifeless souls would love to drag you into their own personal Hells
and have your spirit forever mired in worrying about how sharp your
lens is. If you start worrying about this and you'll never photograph
anything again except brick walls and test charts.
These people are easy to identify. If you've read this far you've
probably seen their websites. They always have lots of info about
equipment, but very few real photographs. Beware of any information
from any website not loaded with photography you admire. 
I had to pull most of the photos of equipment off my site because
these people were spending more time looking at my equipment than my
art! The bandwidth for which I pay was being eaten up by these idiots
looking at my lenses, instead of looking at the photos in my gallery
which is the whole point of this site. That's why all the stupid pages
like this one are in yellow, so that their eyes hurt too much to waste
too much time on the nuts and bolts.
Most people who waste my time e-mailing me with technical and
equipment questions through this site unfortunately belong to this
unenlightened bottom group. Almost anyone who actually worries about
the level they occupy belong to the bottom. Many of these folks stalk
the Internet, and spend hours getting off "contributing" to technical
websites and photography chat rooms like Photo.net, 
www.dpreview.com
,
photocritique.net
 and the German Forum fur Nikon-Fotografen und
Sammler instead of making photos. The guys here aren't too bad, and
most of the Leica people here are just equipment collectors.

 nota :-)
Ken Rockwell è decisamente un grande opinionista, personalmente adoro i
suoi articoli. Hai presente la sua recensione della 1Ds o della SD9?
L'avrò già detto, ma la F100 mancina della homepage mi attizza un sacco!
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Si e' in gamba ed ha senso dello humor.
Ciao
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 Si e' in gamba ed ha senso dello humor.
Non solo, io apprezzo molto il fatto che metta sempre in primo piano
l'aspetto operativo di ciň che recensisce, dando piů risalto a come
l'equipaggiamento si comporta in un contesto lavorativo vero.
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