Is it just me... or is this place getting Rude?

00silvergt wrote in post #3900527
With that...LOL Macro settings for those who don't know what they are, is nothing but a marketing strategy that lens manufacturers add as a feature on the lens. A true macro will give you 1:1 images at close focusing distances, which leaves the EF 50mm Macro for debate, but with a life-size converter it is 1:1. Funny thing is that for the money of the 50mm and the converter, (providing you have a crop body) you can get the EF-S 60mm Macro which is 1:1 out the box or if you have a FF or 1.3x body, you can get the super sharp Sigma 70mm Macro for less than the 50mm and life-size converter.

Yes, they are not possible to compare. But that is more or less impossible for a beginner to know. A user may read about the macro function of their super-super lens in the lens manual and then visit the Macro forum and be very confused about the difference

LOL ((whistles)) Yes, I remember buying a lens, paid $100 for it too, which claimed to be a Macro. 1:6 ratio, minimum focusing distance was 18 inches. I think it was a 50mm zoom...I was disappointed, but it was a $100 lesson! LOL

Grace wrote in post #3901007
OK, ok....just send me your gear and we'll call it even!

Really? You want my two Polaroid cameras, one shot pin-hole box, one time use flash cubes, and my 4x5 silver halide glass plates to call it even? Okay....I'm going to the post office to mail 'em out now. Remember, no backsies.

lol, I'm done looking in the EOS forum.....

it's the same as goin' to www.google.com, typing "canon 40d" and hitting enter

00silvergt wrote in post #3901070
LOL ((whistles)) Yes, I remember buying a lens, paid $100 for it too, which claimed to be a Macro. 1:6 ratio, minimum focusing distance was 18 inches. I think it was a 50mm zoom...I was disappointed, but it was a $100 lesson! LOL

Yes, 25 years ago I thought that flower symbol was mighty cool. The camera shop guy must have laughed his pants of when I asked "Does it have macro?"

1:6 on a low-end lens or 5:1 for the MP-E65 sounds very similar

3Turner wrote in post #3901084
Really? You want my two Polaroid cameras, one shot pin-hole box, one time use flash cubes, and my 4x5 silver halide glass plates to call it even? Okay....I'm going to the post office to mail 'em out now. Remember, no backsies.

A polaroid...HECK YEAH! mail it baby!

Miyagi-san wrote in post #3901121
lol, I'm done looking in the EOS forum.....

it's the same as goin' to www.google.com, typing "canon 40d" and hitting enter

There is a 40D



j/k

Grace wrote in post #3901270
A polaroid...HECK YEAH! mail it baby!

Okay have to warn you though....it dosen't work and I first have to wrestle it away from my son who stores it in his toy box....it looks sorta like THIS

Well, actually...its just a broken pile of plastic since my son dropped it.

Miyagi-san wrote in post #3901121
lol, I'm done looking in the EOS forum.....

it's the same as goin' to www.google.com, typing "canon 40d" and hitting enter

People get emotional, and the more we can figure that out and accept it, the more we will be able to tolerate the whines about new products and how Noink is now better than Canon remarks. I find it amusing really, that adults will whine and fight over brand names, if we can't get over the Canon/Nikon thing, how can we ever expect to accept each other in peace?

PWN2, I have had a lot of dealings with these less than honest sales people, one told me that digital cameras "extend" the reach of a lens, actually changing the FL, instead of merely changing the FOV, giving it the appearance that the lens is longer. When I tried to point that out to them, it merely fell on deaf ears and proceeded to try to get me to pay $750 for a 150-500mm Sigma. Offering that it was a great deal! LOL

I held it back earlier...but I just have to say it...I think of polaroid and I think of...

bow chica wow wow! he he he he!!

I tend to stay away from the equipment forums as it gets quite heated there. :O

Grace wrote in post #3901349
I held it back earlier...but I just have to say it...I think of polaroid and I think of...

bow chica wow wow! he he he he!!

Polaroid was the 70's answer to digital pictures nowadays. Instant gratification! Albeit, low quality, low resolution, very soft and no PP. Well, no one really owned a computer that would even think of PP at that time, anyway!

3Turner wrote in post #3901331
Okay have to warn you though....it dosen't work and I first have to wrestle it away from my son who stores it in his toy box....it looks sorta like THIS

Well, actually...its just a broken pile of plastic since my son dropped it.

"Big Swinger"

3Turner wrote in post #3901331
Okay have to warn you though....it dosen't work and I first have to wrestle it away from my son who stores it in his toy box....it looks sorta like THIS

Well, actually...its just a broken pile of plastic since my son dropped it.

"Meet the Swinger, the Polaroid Swinger...
It's more than a camera, it's almost alive,
It's only 19 dollars and 95...............

Swing it up, it says yes
Take the shot, pull it out,
Count it down, zip it off..............."

Woolburr wrote in post #3901519
"Meet the Swinger, the Polaroid Swinger...
It's only a camera, but it's almost alive,
It's only 19 dollars and 95..............."

Was that all it cost?