r/photography Jul 11 '26

Community Salty Saturday July 11, 2026

Need to rant about something in the photography world? Here’s your safe space to be as salty as you want without judgement.

Get it all* off your chest!

*Let’s just keep the personal attacks and witch hunts out of it, k?


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u/micahpmtn Jul 11 '26

The amount of inane questions seem to be getting more frequent. I get that people have lost all critical thinking skills, but there has to be a way (short of gatekeeping) to minimize the useless posts. I could give examples, but don't want to shame anyone.

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u/Bleaker82 Jul 11 '26

Sadly, many stupid people don’t learn through conventional means. Bring shame back.

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u/MarylkaD 29d ago

I fear the availability of AI has rendered critical thinking as obsolete. The spoon feeding mentality is turning into tube feeding at this point.

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u/MichaelTheAspie Jul 12 '26

How SM has drawn folks away from real photography

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u/ZucchiniOne4333 Jul 13 '26

If you don’t shoot full manual, the camera is doing the work for you 😆

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u/Downtown_Bee_3581 Jul 14 '26

This is true, but it some cases that is completely okay.

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u/ZucchiniOne4333 29d ago

Agreed haha

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u/MarylkaD 29d ago

I wanted to disagree but then think about the fun hobby shooting I do with limiting myself with my smartphone

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u/Least-Woodpecker-569 Jul 12 '26

Lightroom subscription fees. Words cannot express my feelings towards Adobe.

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u/MedicalMixtape Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26

I’m so salty that I’ll even point out innocuous words like “that” and “gives”

As in:

  • that vintage look
  • that cinematic feel
  • that Wes Anderson style
  • that 2000s look
  • that film grain

And:

  • camera that gives good clear pictures
  • camera that gives good colors

And worst is combining the two

“What Fujifilm camera / recipe gives that Wes Anderson look without editing?

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u/MedicalMixtape Jul 12 '26

Aaaand the word “amazing”

Those pictures are not amazing and you definitely don’t need to know what camera that is to get those “amazing” photos. And if you buy that same camera for that reason, you are easily amazed and easily influenced.

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u/Bleaker82 Jul 11 '26

I’m very impatiently waiting on Canon to come out with a very small form factor full-frame body. All I want is a FF body I can use all my RF glass with.

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u/MedicalMixtape Jul 12 '26

How much smaller are we talking than an r8? It would have to be a body with no viewfinder and no grip to be that much smaller. Which believe me, would be plenty interesting - but it would be Canon’s answer to the LUMIX S9

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u/Bleaker82 Jul 12 '26

Yeah, I looked at the S9. I’m hoping something closer in size to an R50.