Urban Legends: Photography

It just struck me that photography has been around so long it must have accumulated it's share of 'myth'. Care to contribute some?

Here’s one: "Everyone knows that today’s film and paper contain much less silver than they used to. That’s how the great printers from the middle part of the century got such rich blacks in their prints." Myth or fact?

Another: "The inverse proportion of a man's zoom lens will indicate the size of his..."

A photo has to be tack sharp to be good.

Another one says that Ansel Adams had photos of clouds which he would composite on landscapes to create the perfect picture.

Grainy, OOF, way under (or over) exposed images are almost always great pieces of fine art.

Heard one where a man drinking at a bar takes a pretty girl back to the hotel room. In the morning he wakes up in a bathtub full of ice. He opens his camera bag and his Canon has been removed and replaced with a Nikon.

there's a thread half a page down on the same thing....

saravrose wrote in post #2289545
there's a thread half a page down on the same thing....

Yea, but that one doesn't have the bathtub story.

KevC wrote in post #2289446
Grainy, OOF, way under (or over) exposed images are almost always great pieces of fine art.

Especially if printed out nice, large, and glossy. What are the assumptions underlying that i wonder...?

"Photographs steal your soul!" WooooOOOoooOOOOoo

Wow, i'd rather lose a kidney instead of getting my camera gear switched.

Heard the one about the couple that was robbed in Jamaca, only thing not taken was there toothbrushes. When they got home there was a picture mailed from the thiefs. One thief snapped a pic of the other with a toothbrush up his a$$. Not sure if it's an urban legand or not

Dan

mrclark321 wrote in post #2291642
Heard the one about the couple that was robbed in Jamaca, .... Not sure if it's an urban legand or not

Dan

Yea, it's a legend, and a great one. Check out Snoops.

Wasn't there just an identical or at least similar post around here soemwhere?

rklepper wrote in post #2291915
Wasn't there just an identical or at least similar post around here soemwhere?

yep.

A friend of mine was a lifeguard and told me stories of young ladies who would leave their cameras at the lifeguard stand so they would not get ruined or stolen. On a few occasions some rather explicit lifeguard anatomy shots would end up on the roll of film. He recalled one lifeguard during his 'career' getting fired for this - though he didn't know how they pinned it on one individual.

heres a question of mine. Does a comfact flash wiegh more when it is full of pictures? Even down to the Smallest amount?