{"id":1302,"date":"2009-07-31T05:50:58","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T05:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1302"},"modified":"2009-07-31T05:50:58","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T05:50:58","slug":"am-i-sure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1302","title":{"rendered":"Am I Sure?"},"content":{"rendered":"

First, read Ken Rockwell<\/a>‘s fun article, How to Spot an Amateur<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n

So, according to Ken Rockwell, which of these identify you as an amateur?<\/p>\n

1) Backpack
\n2) Carrying too much stuff
\n3) Polarizer over UV filter, or polarizer used all the time
\n4) Midrange zoom
\n5) Camera worn directly over the neck
\n6) Clean gear
\n7) New DSLR
\n8) Lens cap and lens keepers
\n9) Using a tripod in daylight
\n10) LCD magnifier
\n11) Beepers
\n12) Camera brand strap showing logo
\n13) Hood on backwards
\n14) Tripods, fast lenses and high ISOs<\/p>\n

I mostly agree with his points – I never liked backpacks that make you look like turtles, I never liked lens caps (except for my Peleng 8mm F3.5 circular fisheye, where you simply cannot get a protective filter for it) and I don’t like that AF focus confirm beep. Funny how people will brag how silent their focus is but the beep is still there!<\/p>\n

I don’t bring lens hoods because all you need to combat flare is to know where to stand and where to stretch out your hand. I don’t need no tripod either with SteadyShot built-in!<\/p>\n

I have been carrying only my midrange zoom (Minolta 24-105mm F3.5-4.5(D)) a lot lately because it’s the best fit for my Sony LCS-WR1AM wrapping cloth<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I also have a New DSLR<\/b> worn directly over the neck<\/b> (when shooting, but when not shooting it goes over diagonally.) I recently reversed the camera brand strap so it blends in with the look of the wrapping cloth.<\/p>\n

So yeah, 3 out of 14 points. 21.4% amateur! (It would be more fun if he had made it an online poll.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First, read Ken Rockwell‘s fun article, How to Spot an Amateur. So, according to Ken Rockwell, which of these identify you as an amateur? 1) Backpack 2) Carrying too much stuff 3) Polarizer over UV filter, or polarizer used all the time 4) Midrange zoom 5) Camera worn directly over the neck 6) Clean gear […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}