"George Kerby" <ghost_topper@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On 3/26/08 11:05 AM, in article fsds70$elr$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> "Matt Ion" <soundy106@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>> Sarina Sarin wrote:
>>> Post your pictures or shut up.
>>> I have had enough
>>
>> Fine.
>> http://picasaweb.google.com/soundy106
>>
>> Some good, some bad. Whatever. If I posted every one of them with a
>> "ZOMG THIS IS THE BEST SHOT EVAR, MY 300D OWNZ YOU ALL!" however, I'd
>> probably attract the same derision as Rita does.
>>
>> The problem with Rita, you see, is not the quality (or lack thereof) of
>> the pictures... it's the heaps of bull**** that they come with.
>>
>> Most irritating is that despite constantly ba****ng Brett's
>> (Annika1980's) posts (and that, folks, is someone who's sharing some
>> really, REALLY excellent photos), she's taken to attempting to copy his
>> style of a using a clever(?) subject and lead-in to the post... except
>> where Brett excels at this, Rita fails miserably.
>>
>> Worse is that where Brett averages a pic maybe every couple of weeks,
>> Rita manages at least a couple per day. It gets a little tired and
>> there's really nothing that lets one stand out from the next at that
>> rate.
>>
>> And of course, she goes on at length touting the amazing properties of
>> her marvelous D3 while openly slagging other comers, particularly the
>> Canons, yet nothing she's posted yet lends any foundation to this
>> ba****ng. The most obvious case of this is the "best viewed at full
>> size" tag below every photo... yet "full size" appears to be 1024x768
or
>> less. She wants to amaze us with the clarity and crispness of her
>> wonderful Nikkor glass vs. Brett's Canon L-series lenses, but has yet
to
>> actually offer anything where this quality would BE visible even IF it
>> was there. Her 1000mm shots may be the greatest thing ever committed
to
>> CCD, but we'd never be able to tell from the over-processed thumbnails
>> she provides. Brett, meanwhile, regularly provides full-scale,
>> uncropped versions of his 40D shots.
>>
>> In short, she needs to put up, or shut up.
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> And, to add: "She" is not a "she"...
>
Yes indeed, Sarina and Rita are indeed an "Odd Couple".
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