User talk:Alex.joukovski

License tagging for Image:Minolta X-GM series camera - front of body.JPG

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Minolta XG-M

Bluntly, neither of our pictures are very good. Yours are blown out, lack detail and have an aftermarket lens fitted rather than the kit lens. They are also quite low in resolution. Mine have a more distracting background and blown highlights.

I personally think mine are better and you probably disagree; that's based on subjective opinion. However, I don't think it can reasonably be argued that either set of pictures is anywhere close to a professional product shot. I don't have the equipment and it looks like you don't either.

Meanwhile, I see it as pretty wasteful to replace OK amateur shots by me by photos of no better quality by you. Instead, how about finding articles that aren't illustrated - or take some photos of the XG-M that are unequivocally better than mine - higher resolution, professionally lit, professionally shot, no blown highlights. See e.g. Bill Bertram's shots on Pentax K10D - that's a quality to aspire to.

Lastly, 'just ask an admin' is rather silly. Especially when you have twelve Wikipedia edits to your credit and couldn't recognize an admin if you tripped over one. Matthew Brown (Morven) (T:C) 04:53, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]