Let's take this oportunity to stop posting images in camera brand forums

And use the topical photo categories instead. If you think the camera brand deserves credit for the photo, feel free to specify it in the post body.

Strongly disagree. People interested in a particular brand/equipment have every reason to be interested in seeing how it performs in photos.

Of course. In fact I am going to upload a few I took with my RP at my last trip to Turkey at the Canon R forum. Why not?? 🤔🤔🤔

I agree with this - who wants to spend their time in a bunker only seeing images from a single camera brand?

Did you take them primarily for the purpose of exercising your Canon R ? Is the fact that they were taken by the Canon R their most important aspect ? Important enough to make them irrelevant for anyone who doesn't care about the Canon R ? Is the ability of the Canon R to take this kind of photos being questioned by anyone ?

If the answer to all of the above is 'no' then their place is in the travel and landscape forum.

It's not a proposal for a rule to be enforced, just a suggestion for people to follow individually.

Browsing photos in forums that are not about gear also gives a nice break from gear discussions.

You are free to not participate in those posts if they do not comply with your requirements.

For years DPR members upload pictures to their respective camera forums and no one ever complains about it.

For hundreds of thousands of years, cavemen drew paintings on the walls of their cave where they would only be seen by the tribe that resided in that cave, and nobody complained about it either.

Excuse me! Have you made the rules here. Leave that to admin 😉

Look, I understand that people coming from dpreview forums are like totalitarian regime refugees - having hard time with the concept that it's possible for something to be argued a good idea and yet not being forced to comply with it. But really, that's an option.

Connecting great images to gear is patently foolish IMO. If this site evolves into a “my (name your favorite gear) is better than your gear” site, manufacturers will sell more expensive gear and the goals of photography will be lost. Some of the best images in the history of photography were shot on gear that few of us would consider “good”. The gear is (and always has been) irrelevant. The human eye is supreme. I would rather see creative images shot on a generic smartphone than a bunch of ducks in a pond in flat light shot on a (pick your favorite $6k rig).

Without the gear you can't take a shot. In all the years at DPR the photos shown in the forums have been as important to my buying cameras and lenses as the reviews have been. I buy gear based mainly on what I see the users in the forums are using. It's a bit hard to tell someone what the camera is doing if you can't see the shots to prove it.

But, that's just my opinion which is no better than yours at the end of the day, but please, let admin do the rules and we will all get a say sooner or later. Maybe, just maybe the majority will rule. In the meantime, don't look at those posts, glaze over them. Is that really such a big deal and hard to do!

Danny.

If I was a good photog with good gear, I could (and would) post my photos in any of the Descriptive photography threads. But because I am a beginner with a compact, it is appropriate that I post in the relevant compact forum where others with similar cameras can comment and give me tips.
So to me, all bases are already covered.

I respect your opinion as you mine. But, to me, gear is gear and it’s essentially all the same. There are some AMAZING images on DPR. Shockingly good work and they are taken with Sony, Canon, Nikon, Fuji and, dare I say Samsung and Apple. Awesome Photography has nearly zero to do with the gear. If it did, we would think that the “masters” of the craft were junk (and honestly, that’s what they shot with compared to todays gear). On DPR there are also a bunch of image of ducks in a pond in flat light taken with $6k of brand A. Ok. Whatever. Good images and the desire to learn how to create them wins. Brand A with a duck in a pond doesn’t.

Look at some of these images:

www.pocket-lint.com/phones/news/apple/146898-the-best-apple-iphone-photos-ever-taken/

You may love some or not like some (as I do) but does it matter the hardware that they were shot on? Are they powerful regardless of gear? Or is the gear what we care about?

Of course the folks who used their intellect and sweat to create this forum can set whatever rules that they wish. But this feedback from the OP (and me and you) might help them shape those rules.

I don't support this proposal. On DP Review, I would often share photos in a genre forum (e.g. Nature and Wildlife) and cross-post in the relevant camera brand forum. I sometimes cross-posted in the lens brand forum.

I did it because it helped the photos reach a larger audience and generate more commentary. Also, as others have said, photos represent how a camera and lens are capable of performing.

On a related note, many of the images I shared in camera brand forums illustrated a statement made about camera performance or features.

Me.