Michael Reichmann at Luminous Landscape:

One of the hoariest old chestnuts in photography is the statement immediately above. Every time I read it chills run down my spine. It seems that whenever someone asks on an online forum whether lens A or B is superior, or if camera A is better than camera B, someone drags out this ancient aphorism. Its purpose, I suppose, is to show superiority of intellect, but basically it’s just plain wrong-headed.

Amen!

While I doubt I’ll act on his suggestion, Reichmann say that the next time someone says this we might want to “whack them upside the head and tell them to stop being such a simplistic dolt.”
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