Comments on: The Bad Photography Marketing Awards for 2012

By: Lith

Lith — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 06:18:40 +0000

What, there’s no entries for Pentax?

Oh. Right. You need to have *some* marketing before you can get entered into a Bad Marketing Awards.

And I nearly sprayed my coffee over my laptop seeing that Canon’s figured out how to measure creativity.

By: Felipe Garcia

Felipe Garcia — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 16:03:47 +0000

We don’t buy micro 4/3 cameras to emulate the looks of medium format, that’s what iPhones are for.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 03:10:24 +0000

The D800 claiming 36MP = Full HD video feels kind of like the reverse of a marketing scam from a few years ago where Sony (in particular, other too though) were going around slapping Full HD stickers on everything, including cameras, because they could take ‘Full HD Stills’… Yeah because that is hard!

I also have to say that ‘Smooth (professional/attractive/creative etc) out of focus backgrounds’ on baby point and shoots (and just about everything else) is the big buzz word for 2011/2012, supplanting Full HD as their biggest con job, surprised none of those made it in anywhere.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 20:24:19 +0000

Tony, I just had to add in, it is not BS. The Image sensor in the OM-D E-M5 is suspended magnetically and it DOES compensate in 5 axis. So yes, if you roll the camera, pitch it or yaw it, it will compensate (within its range of sensor motion) for those. Its fun to half hold the shutter and watch how steady things become in all axis (that I know of).

By: Gabe

Gabe — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 12:58:12 +0000

Wow – Just reading the comments -a humor piece has unleashed a lot of pent-up aggression and anger. Not referring to any single commenter but the author of a particularly long one may need to be exposed to a few hours out of doors? Just sayin’

By: Jonathan SCE

Jonathan SCE — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 00:10:22 +0000

I was wondering what you were talking about the Nikon site, because I never saw the ads or the “improve” lens list. Then I figured it out. I never used the http://www.nikonusa.com site but the http://www.nikon.com site. By the way, I live in the US.

Product List – http://www.nikon.com/products/index.htm
Lens List – http://imaging.nikon.com/lineup/lens/index.htm

By: Charles B

Charles B — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 00:53:27 +0000

That was it! Thanks for the chuckle… then and now.

By: Roger Cicala

Roger Cicala — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 21:28:58 +0000

Charles, I’d forgotten that one so I went and dug it up from the archives. Here’s the for-sale blurb:

As you might have gathered from the specs, it’s a Lensbaby, and it works (if you call it that) like a Lensbaby is supposed to. I don’t get the whole Lensbaby thing, but some people love them. But then again, some people love Brussels Sprouts. I don’t get that either. Oh, yeah, I forgot. It’s in Nikon mount. So if you love Nikon and Brussels Sprouts, you’ll probably want this.

(Image of Brussels Sprouts above for informational purposes only. Not included with purchase. They kind of look like little Alien larvae, don’t they? Can’t you picture them growing along the inside of a derelict spacecraft? Anyway, I’m not eating any of that.)

And I know what you’re thinking: yes, one of the Lensrentals professional staff will come through and change all this text in a day or so when they notice it. But it’s Saturday, I’m bored, and if they make me take call on Saturday, well this is what they’re going to get.

By: Charles B

Charles B — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:01:54 +0000

I am sad that the lensrentals.com copy on a for-sale Lensbaby didn’t make this list. I don’t remember all of it from this past Feb, but I kept this quote:
“So if you love Nikon and Brussels Sprouts, you’ll probably want this.”

By: Roger Cicala

Roger Cicala — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 23:54:18 +0000

Hi Martin,

That was actually the main board of a GoPro camera.

Roger