Disheartening Very Disheartening

DMillier wrote:

Iain G Foulds wrote:

… Scott: A good and fair appraisal. Myself, I care nothing about speed, noise, resolution or LCDs. Simply, the quality of the overall image. And, I have come to see a common rendering to both the Merrills and Quattros. Different in both models, but common to all images from the model.

… But, shooting in it’s zone, I only see the breathtakingly clean images from the vintage Foveon. Not that I myself have managed to take any of these yet. Hoping to do so one day.

… And, 100% on the corruption of Apple.

There is, of course, no freedom of speech on this forum as it is subject to T&Cs and moderator policy. I think that is a good thing.

I don't want to see anyone arrested for their political views and in that regard freedom of speech is essential, but it is a double edged sword where the smallest conversation on the most mundane of topics becomes essentially impossible because of trolls, thugs and bullies. Not to mention the absolute bilge of mis-information and malign foreign actors, difficulties protecting minors and minorities and so on.

I have no idea how this can be solved, but while I agree with the high concept of freedom of speech, it is seriously flawed in practice in the online world. No gatekeepers = drowning in swill.

Have you seen some of the conversations/threads here on DPreview?

I agree there is a serious problem with trying to keep things civil and stop the bots and trolls, but without free speech we would devolve into something akin to China, or worse (i.e. Iran or North Korea), and frankly I don't want to live in such a World, so I choose to fight for freedom of speech. Are you with me? I hope so.

If you've been following what's been going on on Elon's profile there on his website (the big one, which he just bought for billions of dollars), then you are surely well aware of the terrible actions of big tech and others recently. Apple seems to be complicit - a bad actor, if you will. That makes me very unhappy with them (and I hope we see a new SpaceX phone come out next year - I'll buy it . . . if only to just support the direction they'd be heading with that . . . and I'd look forward to the better second and third generation phones, which I would buy too).

Thinking of that, I feel like I should buy a Sigma fp L, just to support where Sigma is going with their cameras, even though I would prefer a FFF.