Just one of the reasons I find myself coming here less and less and less. Thanks for your constructive advice.
Let's face it.
This section "USE" to be for the more involved photographers, mainly because the only people that bought into medium format were pros or serious enthusiasts.
There was always cross over on formats because professionals have to use multiple formats and everybody needed a backup.
Now that smaller than medium format cameras have narrowed the quality gap and post production is just if not more important than the capture device, the lines are blurred more.
In fact Medium format for a long time was ONLY medium format because of the cameras, not the sensor. It took forever to get a FF 645 (which was the smallest of medium format) and now there seems a turn back to even smaller than 645, so I'm not too sure you could call a Leica S2, Pentax or the cmos Phase/Leaf medium format cameras.
Pro or semi pro cameras . . . yes, but medium format . . . I'm not sure that designation really is appropriate anymore.
For me I have a lot of cameras, but honestly, if the Sony A7 series had a full line of fast lenses (not F4 but at least F2), and would track focus and tether professionally, I would have ditched everything and just bought a bunch of those. R for high end print, S for B cam motion imagery.
Instead of RED's I'd have then bought F5's for A cam but the Sony A series just doesn't focus well enough for me and I think they are still at version 1 and need a few more trys to get it right, like less compression and as I mentioned better focusing.
But bottom line TO ME on this section of the forum is it use to attract the better artists, paid pros or the do it for the art crowd, but now it seems those people seem less involved.
I think one main reason is anything we post to the public has to have a return. Use to my return was learning and giving back, but today is different.
Rather than a Fun with images thread I would strongly suggest a gallery section with a place to put put info on every image with metadata to trace the artist.
Then there is a possible return for the posters other than involvement.
Anyway . . .
In other words I don't think we need more rules, I think we need less, but it's not my site and probably none of my business.
IMO
BC
OH BTW: there should be a way to embed a video preview link on a post.