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| Apr 10, 2013 at 14:49 | comment | added | mattdm | Speaking of tangents into specific questions :) I also agree that the exposure one shouldn't be closed as a duplicate of the exposure triangle thread, but I think largely because I hijacked that one with my terminology agenda. I don't think it would hurt to have a new "What are the main camera settings which control exposure?" question where the terminology/pedagogical argument would be left aside. Then, some exposure questions might still be duplicates of that, or at least "read this first and if that doesn't clear it up...." | |
| Apr 10, 2013 at 3:42 | comment | added | MikeW | Which is why I really didn't want to get on a tangent about a specific question. We could argue each of these all day. Just pointing out that the intention of SE sites it to allow for duplicates, and let's not stretch things too far to avoid duplicates. If you think you have to alter another question to make it more generic so it fits with another question, then it's simply not a duplicate IMO | |
| Apr 10, 2013 at 3:40 | comment | added | MikeW | The other states the intention to buy either an 18-135 or a 55-250. Obviously 18-135 is less sensible if he's chosen the 18-55. All the answers talk to the secondary choices of 18-135 or 55-250. Is that too localized? Yeah probably, but far from a duplicate. | |
| Apr 10, 2013 at 3:39 | comment | added | MikeW | JoanneC: There is a more generic one - httpa://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/16404/whats-the-advantage-of-buying-a-fixed-50mm-f-1-8-lens-when-my-camera-has-an-18 - the Nikon one has answers specific to the Nikon lens, while the answers to the most recent question are specific to Canon (e.g. the 50mm 1.8 as very slow AF). The Q askers also have different criteria: one says he'll mainly shoot portrait, nothing moving fast, low budget, no stated intention to buy any other lenses in the near future | |
| Apr 10, 2013 at 2:54 | comment | added | Joanne C Mod | On that second question that @MikeW listed, why shouldn't it be closed and merged? The original question could be updated to reflect a more generic question that isn't so brand specific. | |
| Apr 10, 2013 at 2:24 | comment | added | mattdm | Meh. There is nothing magical about either Canon or Nikon's slower 50mm or their kit lens. I stand by the statement (and the quest asker agrees) that the earlier question covers it. | |
| Apr 10, 2013 at 1:19 | comment | added | Esa Paulasto | Great to have a painter in PhotoSE. Do we have a GTKY tag that I just saw mentioned in another Stack? oh but why I ask, I'll just go to main and search for it. Cya. | |
| Apr 10, 2013 at 0:40 | comment | added | user2719 | @EsaPaulasto -- if it's any consolation, I wound up in tech after losing my shirt (and several shirts I'd borrowed as well) as a pro photographer and ruining a perfectly good hobby (which I initially got into to collect references for painting). Never, ever set up a studio at the beginning of a major recession in a city that's about to lose all of its regional corporate headquarters. And if you have to do that, try not to buy any gear that's obsolete in two weeks. (Being an earlier digital prepress adopter in Halifax in the early '90s was, in retrospect, a mistake.) | |
| Apr 10, 2013 at 0:33 | comment | added | user2719 | I don't know of too many people (besides myself) who would be content with a 50mm/1.8 as their only lens, @MikeW. But the principles still generalize across brands. | |
| Apr 10, 2013 at 0:26 | comment | added | MikeW | What triggered my question was this where there is much more to the question that lens A vs lens B, because a) brand may matter and more importantly b) there are future lens purchases that may affect the initial lens purchase. | |
| Apr 10, 2013 at 0:23 | comment | added | MikeW | You are referring to this question, and I completely agree. It is a generic question that mentions Canon, but is completely generic. | |
| Apr 10, 2013 at 0:22 | comment | added | Esa Paulasto | all not-tech-heads, raise your hand! _o/ here as an example of one that did not drift in from another stack and who is interested in psychology and human behaviour in general. | |
| Apr 10, 2013 at 0:20 | comment | added | Joanne C Mod | I'm with you on the gear (and a bunch of those "what is this effect" for the same effect questions), but there is a tendency towards some assumptions that I think newbies to photography aren't really going to get. It's a fine line I suppose. | |
| Apr 9, 2013 at 23:51 | history | answered | user2719 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |