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An amateur photographer was invited to dinner with friends and took along a few pictures to show the hostess. She looked at the photos and commented "These are very good! You must have a good camera."

He didn't make any comment, but, as he was leaving to go home he said "That was a really delicious meal! You must have some very good pots."

A very good one! You should post it in all forums, where we recently saw so much people who bought for the first time a DC in the prosumer range post quickly after that their camera was a no-buy and they were reselling it immediately because it did not produce systematically only masterpieces (look at Minolta, Olympus SLR, Nikon, Canon threads, and even now we have this type of bashing in my beloved Fuji forum..)!

This being said, I guess that we all are a bit like this in these forums dedicated to costly DCs and myself I often dispute my Fuji 6900 for belonging to a guy that does not inspire it the masterpieces I would expect from a 1,000$ list price camera (that is in fact sold twice less now). I have a friend that makes me jealous. He takes really great pictures with his Nikon SLR film camera, of course I was thinking, he has a top nothch equipment...but once its Nikon was broken during a trip he just bought an 20$ Instamatic and still got very outstanding pictures... Gasp...!

Jean-Paul
http://www.pbase.com/sfjp

joe mama said:

An amateur photographer was invited to dinner with friends and took
along a few pictures to show the hostess. She looked at the photos
and commented "These are very good! You must have a good camera."

He didn't make any comment, but, as he was leaving to go home he
said "That was a really delicious meal! You must have some very
good pots."

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No truer words are ever spoken - what could you do without a camera?

I bet she could still cook in palm leaves over an open fire.

A photographer is one who organises a set or manipulates the ingredients. With the simplicity of capture machines today I can take a great photo – every one is all platitudes and I hand the camera to any guest and they take a great photo and the next and the next – they all come back to me saying it is a fantastic camera even I (meaning themselves) can take great photos with one of those or one cannot miss with that – and they are right.

But if they comment how there is nobody in the background of my picture I comment that that is my wife’s fault as she has a big broom and shoos everyone away as my direction. Or isn’t it magical the way the light is just so in this picture? Well I may explain that we had to stand the bride on a table to actually catch that ray of light and I had to bounce a considerable amount of light back into the shadow or else we’d take pictures like your own camera would.

And of course – some chefs – swear by their ports and pans “You will just not get the right taste from the rubbish in the supermarket that you get at a discount with 100 tokens!” I know chefs who have their pots specially supplied and actually credit the flavour to the instrument – in a restaurant of any quality there will be pans – identical except for one difference – each is a specialised pan – one for omelettes one for something else etc.

It is amazing how related photography and cooking is actually – give anyone a microwave and a packet dinner and they will produce excellence – dump the best ingredients into crusty old pan and one might be a little sick later.

Both chefs and photographers rely on their equipment – the equipment is merely a slave.

But I know what you mean I said this too after a few measly decorations were put up in a local hall in the middle of the country that I spent the last three hours trying to find and the person responsible was introduced to me as the creator “You must have a great ladder!” I said.

joe mama said:

An amateur photographer was invited to dinner with friends and took
along a few pictures to show the hostess. She looked at the photos
and commented "These are very good! You must have a good camera."

He didn't make any comment, but, as he was leaving to go home he
said "That was a really delicious meal! You must have some very
good pots."

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joe mama62678 said:

joe mama wrote:
An amateur photographer was invited to dinner with friends and took
along a few pictures to show the hostess. She looked at the photos
and commented "These are very good! You must have a good camera."

He didn't make any comment, but, as he was leaving to go home he
said "That was a really delicious meal! You must have some very
good pots."

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I have to remember that one. Thanks for sharing. I have heard this comment so many times before. Now I have a come back...Bob

joe mama said:

An amateur photographer was invited to dinner with friends and took
along a few pictures to show the hostess. She looked at the photos
and commented "These are very good! You must have a good camera."

He didn't make any comment, but, as he was leaving to go home he
said "That was a really delicious meal! You must have some very
good pots."

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hahahaha ... ... thanks Joe ... hehehe .. reminds me of a story about Winston Churchell ... who was quite drunk when a Lady remarked ... "Sir, you are drunk" ... and he replied .... "Madam, you are ugly .. but in the morniing, I will not be drunk". ... hehehe
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Karl

Better yet, as legend goes, a woman remarked to Sir Churchill that if she were his wife she would poison him. Without a moments hesitation, he replied, "Dear lady, if I were your husband, I would take it!"

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hahahaha ... ... thanks Joe ... hehehe .. reminds
me of a story about Winston Churchell ... who was quite drunk when
a Lady remarked ... "Sir, you are drunk" ... and he replied ....
"Madam, you are ugly .. but in the morniing, I will not be drunk".
... hehehe
huggers
Karl

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And yet another Winston Churchill legend. At a formal dinner he was seated next to a lady who with he had a long lived fued. During the conversation he asked her if she would sleep with him for 1,000,000 pounds. She thought a bit and replied that for that amount she guesed she could. He then asked her if she would sleep with him for 10 pounds. She indignantly huffed "Certainly not. What kind of woman do you think I am.". Old Winston replied, "We have already established that Madam. Now we are just dickering over the price.".

John

joe mama said:

joe mama62678 said:

hahahaha ... ... thanks Joe ... hehehe .. reminds
me of a story about Winston Churchell ... who was quite drunk when
a Lady remarked ... "Sir, you are drunk" ... and he replied ....
"Madam, you are ugly .. but in the morniing, I will not be drunk".
... hehehe
huggers
Karl

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