oh puhleez...

if i have to hear/read/see anything from someone who had never picked up a camera in their life before digital (and have all of a sudden become a 'photographer' overnight) say something along the lines of "its the lens that makes the photo" or "the newer and more expensive your camera is, the better your pictures will be"

I WILL SCREAM!!

case in point was earlier on when someone said that the lens makes the photo, that if you put a shit lens on a good camera you will get a shit photo... and then went on to say how amazing it was that someone could use an old brownie and take a great photo.

no shit sherlock... its not the equipment thats to blame, its the idiot standing behind it that has no idea that is to blame.

taking 3000 photos of the same bloody thing from minutely different angles and then picking the best 50 to put online does not make one a photographer...

geez... im a spring chicken in the land of photography, i wouldnt dare call myself a photographer, and yet i am starting to relate to how all these older, experienced traditional professional and hobbyist photographers are feeling now that there are suddenly millions upon millions of 'experts' shooting out advice when they have no fucking idea how to actually take a photo.