Post by Rob MorleyOn Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:38:31 +0100
Post by BruceAny item on the ever-longer list of things that Focus
cannot understand is defined as "a bug".
I'm not knowledgeable about psychology, neurophysiology etc. but
I don't think it's particularly things he can't understand so much as
things that aren't as he thinks they should be - he seems to have a
very rigid world view, and has problems when reality doesn't match his
preconceptions. He has to dismiss or ignore anyone who points out his
flawed reasoning, because accepting that they may have valid views
would effectively be an admission that he doesn't have as firm a grip
on reality as he needs to believe that he does. Without any other
history I'd say autistic spectrum disorder, but as he said he's had
brain injury you'd have to consider that as at least a contributing
factor. The brain is remarkably good at recovering from injury, in
some cases it will re-task different areas to replace lost
functionality, but sometimes it simply provides "appropriate"
information without the underlying functionality, so that areas which
rely on that information have some chance of doing their job. That
can actually work quite well in simple familiar situations, but beyond
that it's a lottery whether the fabricated information will match the
actual situation that requires a response.
Well, thank you Dr. Freud.
For someone who opens his post with:
" I'm not knowledgeable about psychology, neurophysiology etc."
You sure seems to "know" everything about those matters.
What I write is things I discover about hardware or software. Most people
that react in some more opr less "funny" way, are not able to graps what it
is I'm stating. When people don't understand something, combined with a low
IQ ( and for the ones blessed with less than average intelligence: I don't
mean Image Quality), they don't ask questions, but rather draw conclusions
based on their own limited view of life.
You don't know me and they don't know me. You have no idea of what I have or
may not have achieved in life, yet you and a few others think they know all
about me and even can predict what I will do next.
People that react in this matter, more often than not, don't have a real
interesting life of their own, so they get their kicks by trying to put
other people down. Most of those people seldom or never start any
interesting topic of their own, simply beacuse they don't have anything to
tell.
Intelligent people understand this and rarely react, just shaking their
heads.
I doubt very much, that any well known and busy photographer (i.o.w.: one
that has enough work) would spent his time digging in my past postings and
come up with things I stated in the past.
Perhaps a lot of people just don't understand what I mean, when I post
something. I make a statement about something I found and wait for reactions
to see if my statement is warranted or not. My final conclusions are drawn
long after I evaluated reactions.
A lot of people here don't seem to understand the difference between a
statement and a conclusion.
Just a few examples:
About the faulty matrix metering on the D90:
I merely stated that it doesn't work as wel on *my camera* as it did with
other camera's, like my (last ;-) Sony, D300.
Some people even pointed out, that it works less than a P&S. Yet a bunch of
people's reactions are, to make fun of me and quickly point out, that a
"real pro" knows how to get about these issues, I don't know how to get a
shot right, it's the man behind the camera and more nonsense like that.
Nobody questions the "authority" of those many self appointed reviewers,
that more often than not miss a lot of facts about camera's and some even
make completely false statements, like the well known Rob Galbraith.
About the Nikon D5000, he wrote:
"This camera isn't capable of FP High Speed Sync."
See, while I may have brain damage, I check the facts: Nikon states that it
*is* capable, up to 1/4000 sec.
Another, in my opinion, dumb remark:
"The D5000 offers pro photographers in the Nikon camp a way to try their
hand at digital SLR video, at a price that's even lower than the D90."
"Pro photographers"? Like amateurs can't buy it or wht does it mean?
Nothing! Exactly.
I can shoot holes in almost all reviews I read, yet the majority of posters
here answer to them like sheep.
Worst of the reviewers is beggar Ken Rockwell. Reading through his "reviews"
I get the idea of someone with ADHD on a mixture of cocaine, glue and
gasoline...
If I find a problem with my car and put in a newsgroup a post if anybody
else has a new Jaguar that consumes a lot of oil or the heater is defective,
they likely give me a normal answer or ask some questions.
If you put the same question here, a bunch of peoples reaction is something
like:
It's not the car, it's the driver. A professional wouldn't have that
problem, etc.
It says more about the quality and intellect of those people than it says
about me.
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Focus