What's the silliest thing you've heard about gear?

We have a couple thousand in town here and they think a Rebel is a pro camera most places, too...

Believe it or not, most people can't tell the difference between models of DSLRs. They just know it's a big and impressive looking camera.

Todd Lambert wrote in post #13905768
Believe it or not, most people can't tell the difference between models of DSLRs. They just know it's a big and impressive looking camera.

Believe it or not, most people can't tell the difference between photos taken by different cameras...from P&S to Hasselblad, even when viewed side-by-side.
Why?
Because most people don't care.

Very true... Simon. People don't really care.

hrk175 wrote in post #13900486
I was shooting at a hockey game and this sophmore (i'm a senior) walks up and gestures to my 7D. "Thats nice," he said and immediately rotated his body to make sure i saw the "5D" and "Mark II" badges.
"That's a really nice camera" I said, "I bet its good in low light"
"Yeah but I got it because it has a pretty fast burst rate. It's one of the fastest on the market," he replied matter-of-factly.
"Oh cool," i said and quickly changed my drive to high speed, looked through the vf and let loose, 8FPS ringing out like a machine gun. the kid just walked away, stunned.

Haaahaa...

RTPVid wrote in post #13905720
That's a ridiculous comment. Are you seriously trying to claim that the larger the city the more the general population knows about different models of DSLRs?

Yup, just like in small towns the general population knows more about different models of rakes and tractors.

LowriderS10 wrote in post #13905953
Yup, just like in small towns the general population knows more about different models of rakes and tractors.

As I said, ridiculous comment.

Friend at a family dinner (always checking out what I am shooting with). I had the 1D MKIII out at the time. "How many megapixels?" he asks (his usual question). "10" I responded. "Really??" he said with great surprise. "My new Kodak has 16 megapixels" he replied with authority, "And a touch screen!".

Damn you Canon for holding me back - even if I get the 1DX I will only have 16mp and NO TOUCH SCREEN!!

sandpiper wrote in post #13905253
I presume that you mean the part where he called it "still pretty good"? I wouldn't call that silly, it's subjective and depends on what he wants from the camera.

Maybe he just is happy with small images for facebook etc. The Mavica is still capable of producing nice shots, if at a low resolution compared to more modern cameras. It depends which one he bought though, the ones that used 3.5" floppies ranged from 307,000 pixels (640x480) up to 2mp before they dropped the use of floppies and moved on to CD-R and memory stick storage.

I doubt it was silly to buy it, assuming he didn't pay a lot for it, as the early digital cameras will possibly rise in value due to their having been the start of the revolution.

Nah...it was just the 3. 5 floppy that killed me (it was one of the later, 2MP models) and zero user controls; power button and shutter release were the only functional switches. As long as he was happy with the shots he got out of them, I don't think that the purchase was silly. But, everything had already moved on to SD and/or CF cards by the time he picked it up and I was just startled by the medium.

A photographer I second shot at a few weddings with spilt tea over an SD card and told me she was annoyed about it because it was a 'pro card' which gave her images a 'really nice shine'. Even my girlfriend who knows very little about camera gear laughed when I showed her the text message.

keith30d wrote in post #13906719
A photographer I second shot at a few weddings with spilt tea over an SD card and told me she was annoyed about it because it was a 'pro card' which gave her images a 'really nice shine'. Even my girlfriend who knows very little about camera gear laughed when I showed her the text message.

Looked at your site, some very nice photos.

You take amazing photos you must have a very nice memory card :p

on the note of spilling tea on memory cards i am forever putting them through the washing machine, they still work if they dry out properly and theyre fresh and clean...

i once travelled with a friend for a couple of hours to take some landscapes and before leaving he checked if we both had remembered lenses, bodys, lens cleaning acc, tripods and q/r's... safe to say when we got there idiot here forgot to bring a battery!!

SpeedyGoo wrote in post #13906970
on the note of spilling tea on memory cards i am forever putting them through the washing machine, they still work if they dry out properly and theyre fresh and clean...

Just be sure you use color safe detergent. Otherwise you may end up with black and whites!!

Justaddwata wrote in post #13907108
Just be sure you use color safe detergent. Otherwise you may end up with black and whites!!

And don't use bleach! All of your pictures will look like they've been run through Instagram.

"Is that a tele-converter or are you just happy to see me?"

OK, I just made that one up