About 365cameras.com
About 365cameras.com, my photographic tastes, and the all important disclaimer for the FTC
365cameras.com is devoted to photography in general. It has articles and links to many resources, mostly things I’m researching for my own projects or just personally interested in. The name 365 cameras comes from that fact that I think about photography 365 days per year.
I like all forms of photography. Film, digital, large format, 35mm, medium format. I even like alternative photography like pinhole and lomography.
Mostly, I use 25 plus year old manual Minolta cameras with Tri-X film. Great glass. Dependable. Sometime old Pentax. That’s my thing. Other things float my boat too, I just don’t give them as much credit. Many things I end up writing about give me that special feeling.
This site does use affiliate links for Ebay, Amazon and others and advertising from Google and others. These help pay the cost of the hosting. I don’t have paid reviews currently. If someone sends me a piece of equipment and I review it, be forewarned, I might have a link or an ad concerning it. Scary. Generally, I link out of this site to other people’s reviews. I follow those up with ebay or Amazon links for people looking for a discount.
If I have a paid link to something, generally it’s because I think it’s something I or someone else will like. If you don’t like it, don’t buy it.
That whole disclaimer was because of some retarded rule that the FTC has in place that if there’s an ad you have to disclose that it might be because you might make money from it. Stupid rule. Stupid politicians. Yes, if there is an ad, someone might make money. Wow, get over it. Anybody that needs a disclaimer to make a decision about anything is a total idiot. Personally, I think the people that press the point are lawyers who are just trying to make money from having so many laws. I’ll repeat this, if you have to have disclaimers about items you read about, you’re an idiot. Please leave my site.
We used to have independent thinking people who could make up their own minds without feeling they were sheep to be sheared by companies or mindlessly led by politicians. The FTC ruling and the current state of politics emphasize the point that they believe that people are too stupid to make up their own minds or to recognize a quality product and that all have to be brain washed into the great Kumbaya of socialism. If you’re a politician partially responsible for the creating this mess, then please leave my site.
As far as cameras are concerned, I think there are too many religious nuts. Someone will think one manufacturer is bad or have a chip on his shoulder about some stupid experience. Not my world. I think the history of photography has been interesting. There have been a few bad cameras and bad manufacturers. For the most part, you can’t go wrong with a modern Canon, Nikon, Pentax, or Olympus. Yes, Leica cameras are awesome. So are Hasselblad. It’s all good.
With film cameras, there have been some greats, but even the others can be fun to use.
Mostly, what you produce reflects how you use a particular tool, whether that tool is the ultimate in resolution and contrast or some muddy mess. If you can get it to work for what you are trying to do, that’s all that really matters.
Whether the autofocus works in one bazillionth of a second or not probably doesn’t matter to that many people.
As a further disclaimer, I’m a manual focus kind of guy. There may be items of a manual focus nature on this site. You have been warned.
People ask me why I don’t put my photos on the web. Because I don’t. My photographs generally aren’t the subjects of what I’m writing about. If they ever are, then I reserve the right to publish my photos in the future.
Now, that I’ve disclosed everything to death, if you’re here researching cameras and you want a new digital SLR, check out Amazon’s Digital SLR Store
