Feedback Site changes, again

Wow. Go on holiday and come back to a renovated house! Was surprised to see Serious Compacts suddenly become cameraderie.org, but I can dig it. Nice play on words, and a good description of the vibe here.

Amin, I hope that these changes bring the ease and traffic that you're after! You've done a super job with all these forums, and I still think of SeriousCompacts as my online home away from home.
 
Oddly, this morning, I was just wondering why you never opened a Canon site, lol. Which was the only major player you didn't have a dedicated site for. I guess it's moot now.
 
If there was a way to filter your personal view of "recents" on the right side, by forums you are interested in, that would be awesome. Is that possible?
 
Canon just doesn't have the "it." Or maybe we gravitate towards the underdogs. Although the first camera I really wanted when I started getting more into "Serious Compacts" was the G10. All the dials and viewfinder made the camera look really "serious" but without the bulk of a DSLR.
 
Canon just doesn't have the "it." Or maybe we gravitate towards the underdogs. Although the first camera I really wanted when I started getting more into "Serious Compacts" was the G10. All the dials and viewfinder made the camera look really "serious" but without the bulk of a DSLR.
I tried out the Canon Pro1 before I settled on the Nikon D70.
 
If there was a way to filter your personal view of "recents" on the right side, by forums you are interested in, that would be awesome. Is that possible?

It's not possible for the right sidebar. However, you can choose which forums are included when you click on the "Recent Posts" and "Unread" links at the top of the page by setting preferences here: https://www.cameraderie.org/account/new-posts

which is also accessible via the user control panel:

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To anyone who had an active subscribing member status on FujiXspot, Leica Place, or Forever Film and doesn't already have one here, I will be manually adding you to the subscriber group here by the end of the week with a subscription end date of whatever it was on the other sites, so there is no need to re-subscribe here.
 
Canon just doesn't have the "it." Or maybe we gravitate towards the underdogs. Although the first camera I really wanted when I started getting more into "Serious Compacts" was the G10. All the dials and viewfinder made the camera look really "serious" but without the bulk of a DSLR.

There's a book by Jeremy Clarkson - "You've Got Soul" - it'a about machines that have just that. There are chapters devoted to the Riva speedboat, the Spitfire, the Zeppelin, etc. I have had a couple of Canon cameras, and a few more lenses (in LTM) but I have never bonded with them, and for me at least it is that reason - they are highly efficient machines but just have no discernable soul.

Just in case people with Canons think I am picking on them I have felt the same about other cameras; Voigtlander, for instance, and Bronica. It's a personal, subjective, intangible thing I know, but I do think it has a bearing, particularly somewhere like here where I think that the average EQ of the members is higher than you would find on a more gear-orientated site.
 
I think Canon has soul. Certainly some of their lenses do, IMO. I bonded pretty strongly with:
-the Canon 10D, original Canon 5D, and several of the EF lenses
-some of the fast Canon LTM 50s
-my Canonet QL 17 GIII
-a whole slew of Canon G-series compacts

For me, modern Nikon has it over Canon in a few places: 1) They are the underdog; 2) They are better looking; 3) They use better sensors; 4) My dad shot Nikon.

But I still like Canon.
 
I think Canon has soul. Certainly some of their lenses do, IMO. I bonded pretty strongly with:
-the Canon 10D, original Canon 5D, and several of the EF lenses
-some of the fast Canon LTM 50s
-my Canonet QL 17 GIII
-a whole slew of Canon G-series compacts

For me, modern Nikon has it over Canon in a few places: 1) They are the underdog; 2) They are better looking; 3) They use better sensors; 4) My dad shot Nikon.

But I still like Canon.
I would still use a Canon 5D (original) if it had auto-ISO and sensor cleaning. Those were my main reasons for selling it. But the pictures from that camera were sublime.
 
There's a book by Jeremy Clarkson - "You've Got Soul" - it'a about machines that have just that. There are chapters devoted to the Riva speedboat, the Spitfire, the Zeppelin, etc. I have had a couple of Canon cameras, and a few more lenses (in LTM) but I have never bonded with them, and for me at least it is that reason - they are highly efficient machines but just have no discernable soul.

Just in case people with Canons think I am picking on them I have felt the same about other cameras; Voigtlander, for instance, and Bronica. It's a personal, subjective, intangible thing I know, but I do think it has a bearing, particularly somewhere like here where I think that the average EQ of the members is higher than you would find on a more gear-orientated site.

I feel the same way about the Sony A7 series. They are great cameras, but I never bonded with the A7. And now a great photographer owns it. It's in a better home now ...
 
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