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Comment by ChrisA posted on What has happened? at 23/05/2014 - 16:01
johnriley wrote:
my point is that if we make it more complicated it won't necessarily make it any better.
This is not a rejection of any point of view, just a thinking process about it.
Do two things:my point is that if we make it more complicated it won't necessarily make it any better.
This is not a rejection of any point of view, just a thinking process about it.
* rename 'Your photos' as 'Images for critique or feedback'
* remove the opportunity to leave comments in the Gallery.
Two very simple changes, with no possibility for confusion at all.
You wouldn't expect to go up to the Mona Lisa in the Louvre, and find a comments book containing things like 'nice pic, maybe touch up the smile a bit'. That's because it's a gallery. Everyone knows what a gallery is.
None of this stuff is rocket science, and it's an insult to the people here to imagine that such simple changes are beyond people's ability to understand.
It's more confusing as things are at the moment.
PS Ideally, I'd like to be able to put links to externally hosted images in the gallery on the rare occasions I have something to show off. I don't like having to host things in more than one place, and I also don't like the fact (assuming it's still the case) that deleting an image from the gallery doesn't delete it from the server.
Comment by ChrisA posted on What has happened? at 22/05/2014 - 14:59
DrOrloff wrote:
There doesn't seem much point asking for opinions when the inevitable answer is we won't do anything about it.
+1There doesn't seem much point asking for opinions when the inevitable answer is we won't do anything about it.
RalphHardwick wrote:
John we're trying to post suggestions for improvement after all, as the saying goes: If you always do what you've always done, you will always get what you always got.
Is there no chance that anything we suggest will ever get even considered let alone implemented?
+1John we're trying to post suggestions for improvement after all, as the saying goes: If you always do what you've always done, you will always get what you always got.
Is there no chance that anything we suggest will ever get even considered let alone implemented?
Comment by ChrisA posted on What has happened? at 22/05/2014 - 13:04
gartmore wrote:
Amazingly Pentax/Ricoh have just asked 'film or digital?' on their facebook page this morning with a picture of a Spotmatic and a 645Z
I have always thought the Pentax marketing people are muppets.Amazingly Pentax/Ricoh have just asked 'film or digital?' on their facebook page this morning with a picture of a Spotmatic and a 645Z
Like for instance the competition where you have to post an image *and* say why you think you should win.
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Comment by ChrisA posted on Which is best, film or digital? at 22/05/2014 - 12:32
gartmore wrote:
I was really wondering about the point of having comments in the gallery for example. I really dislike, it may sound churlish, having well meaning platitudes below my pictures.
Absolutely. Comments there are pointless. It's a gallery, the clue's in the name I was really wondering about the point of having comments in the gallery for example. I really dislike, it may sound churlish, having well meaning platitudes below my pictures.
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Perhaps that would force the commentators to use 'your picures' instead? We don't want to make things too complicated for fear of discouraging posting.
If I'm critiquing, it's as much as I can do to articulate what I'm trying to say. I don't want to have to rewrite it in some kind of specified structure and still manage to retain my meaning. Perhaps that would force the commentators to use 'your picures' instead? We don't want to make things too complicated for fear of discouraging posting.
Just make 'nice' and 'great' proscribed words in the Your Photos section
Comment by ChrisA posted on What has happened? at 22/05/2014 - 12:26
johnriley wrote:
What I meant to say, was "sometimes someone who say...etc."
Freudian slip; I bet it's true more often than you'd think.What I meant to say, was "sometimes someone who say...etc."
They still deserve what they get though
Comment by ChrisA posted on What has happened? at 22/05/2014 - 10:48
Blythman wrote:
https://www.pentaxuser.com/forum/topic/sedge-warbler-49294
I missed this - zoikes, that's quite a crop.percy wrote:
How about the ability to crop an image tighter with the higher resolution available on the K-3 . . . . do those of you who have gone from the K-5 to the K-3 find that to be a worthwhile advantage?
Posted this to demonstrate but no-one seemed interestedHow about the ability to crop an image tighter with the higher resolution available on the K-3 . . . . do those of you who have gone from the K-5 to the K-3 find that to be a worthwhile advantage?
https://www.pentaxuser.com/forum/topic/sedge-warbler-49294
Comment by ChrisA posted on worth upgrade k5IIs to K-3 at 22/05/2014 - 09:48
johnriley wrote:
I don't think there's any way anybody could know Chris. The nearest thing would be a comparison between the current version and the Pentax, but it's unlikely to be a priority for those who do such tests.
Yes, much as I thought. For someone to have both of those seems inconceivable.I don't think there's any way anybody could know Chris. The nearest thing would be a comparison between the current version and the Pentax, but it's unlikely to be a priority for those who do such tests.
Comment by ChrisA posted on Sigma 500mm f/4.5 EX APO Lens + Case + Instr + Box at 22/05/2014 - 09:45
I would love this, but there's no chance I could ever justify the money without a lottery win.
Just out of curiosity, does anyone know how it compares optically with the new Pentax 560mm?
Just out of curiosity, does anyone know how it compares optically with the new Pentax 560mm?
Comment by ChrisA posted on Sigma 500mm f/4.5 EX APO Lens + Case + Instr + Box at 22/05/2014 - 08:48
If
For future reference, if I say "tell me the truth, good or bad", then that is exactly what I mean. I would feel insulted if I got the mealy-mouthed half-baked approach.
johnriley wrote:
someone who says "tell me the truth, good or bad" really means "tell me how much you like my photo"
then they deserve what they get.someone who says "tell me the truth, good or bad" really means "tell me how much you like my photo"
For future reference, if I say "tell me the truth, good or bad", then that is exactly what I mean. I would feel insulted if I got the mealy-mouthed half-baked approach.
Comment by ChrisA posted on What has happened? at 22/05/2014 - 08:44
* remove the opportunity to leave comments in the Gallery
The fact is, however, that since the gallery is for people to post pictures they are pleased with, you can be sure that whatever feedback is left will be artificially skewed towards praise, since no one likes to rain on someone else's parade (not even me!!)
I suppose people like to feel good, so if getting a bit of mild praise (and no feedback at all from the people that think the picture is no good) floats people's boat, so be it.
Rest assured nothing will change, though