Apaflo wrote:
The problem with your comment, Douglass, is that it might apply more to you that to those you direct it at! Posting images that are pretty does not prove a point. Claiming no credibility for those who have not posted unrelated images is just a diversion to avoid the requirement of providing good, detailed, and most of all accurate, information. Pretty pictures do not do that...
You've repeatedly made this claim about people needing to post images to UHH for credibility. Even when people have massive examples of their work elsewhere on the Internet.
Other bold statements, such as this one, "You cite my documentation; where is yours? Claims without documentation are merely opinion, of which you have plenty." are similar. They attempt to divert attention from valid facts that contradict your opinions. You might remember that one in particular, where you said of a 35mm lens "Adding extension tubes to this lens to reach 1:1 mag would be physically quite long (ungainly)", and became very intolerant ( "NONE of this is factual." ) when it was pointed out that a 29mm extension tube would produce 1:1 with that lens. But it was, just as the above, a diversion because you had not validated the facts. You in fact had not cited documentation that supported your point, but like pretty pictures just something with pretty words.
It does appear that you resent people who do validate facts and know how to explain them. Absent pretty pictures that mean nothing, of course... :-)
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There are times I could have posted a picture here to help someone's understanding, but it would have been more to show the use of certain equipment rather than the results of using it. There are enough other sections for my blunders.