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

He was a mod over there, and explained it in the moderation thread.

There is of course room for both, many are not shopping for gear and want to see nice landscape pics. Thats why DPR and FM have had both for years. No need to limit gear based image threads as the OP suggested.

Agree completely. The specific gear forums would not be much help if you could not have photos from the gear in discussions to relate to.

Often the photos in threads about specific gear are intended to demonstrate how that gear responds to a given photographic opportunity -- lenses for instance.

But, on the other hand for those who are not interested in photos of e.g. cats, babies, or cathedrals, seeing these might be avoided if they were normally segregated in their own category. (I, for instance, have seen enough photos of birds in flight to have had my fill; but that's just me!)

David

That´s tough one! Sometimes The photo of a baby is about as far from the possible evaluation of the subject as possible, and that is annoying, but well, poor content happens. On the other hand, discussing gear in the photography department is usually inappropriate and big nono. So, that is A SITUATION.
Never found out how to deal with that properly. How to be in the proper category while being heard "on topic". Ideas welcome.

A little reading while waiting for inspiration 😁

Number of Photos (2023): Statistics, Facts, & Predictions
photutorial.com/photos-statistics/

Bhaha, great one, and great to see you posting so much interesting info all around he forums! Much appreciated. Thank you.

Well, given that many people have no camera, What the hell do people do with 4000 photos on their phones? :-D

Might be a good idea for the home page to highlight or showcase photos posted in the genre forums, not only to bring more attention to those forums but also to encourage people to post them there. Each genre forum page can also highlight the recent photos. Just a simple click on the thumbnail takes people to the thread.

I doubt that's going to happen - too many pretend that pictures on their monitor say something about the camera or lens used.

Those of us who have and use various, shall we say, obscure, cameras really appreciate the camera brand specific forums here (Sigma, in my case). We can show to other Sigma users how a specific lens performs on a specific camera model via photos and discussions. I'm thinking of various lenses for my Sigma SD Quattro, for example. In a general landscape discussion, those images would be buried under Canons, Nikons, or other brands. Actually, I also shoot a full-frame Canon 5DS, those cameras don't seem very popular these days. R R and more R ...

So I appreciate the Canon full-frame DSLR forum to see other full-frame Canon users' work, not to mention what lenses they are using.

There are other topic-specific photo forums. Look at those for landscapes where often the brand is not specified. Or better yet post here in several different forums.

Please don't take the gear- specific forums away or make rules about what goes where.
Sandy Fleischmann on flickr

Well written. That's what I meant. I have observed this many times. It would be a loss.

Somehow this whole discussion seems rather superfluous to me and I can't understand why the OP came up with the idea of opening this topic in the first place.

If you just think about it a little bit it becomes clear that it can be right and helpful to post photos in brand specific forums. And it makes just as much sense to post pictures in topic specific forums.

One does not exclude the other! They complement each other in very meaningful ways. So why waste brain power on such questions at all? Everyone should post where it seems appropriate to him/her. There we really do not need to make each other rules and the probably well-intentioned proposal of the OP is for me personally completely superfluous.

The most important thing is to take good pictures, not where you publish them...

Cheers,
Reto

I like the idea as a general suggestion because I like to see good photographs by topic (travel, nature, wildlife, portraits, etc.) in one place. If there are good photos in brand forums that I don't visit, I miss them all the time.

If the photo is posted as a way to illustrate specific feature of a camera, then the brand forum is a good place. For example, I searched Sony forum for A6600, specifically for wildlife.

My request/suggestion to this site administrators is for a way to tag a post to multiple forums, which will solve both needs. I am not aware that such a feature exists. If it does, then we are all set! We just need be educated to use it more.

Thanks.