Quality versus Quantity

[wakman11]

Always quality over quantity.

Too many people beleive that more is better but not me!

Have fun

[Warren G]

Originally Posted by office boy

From previous post:

If everyone would be honest with themselves about this, we would have a really great forum.

We already do have a great forum which is why there are several other sites out there copying, or trying to copy us.

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to imply that.

[buttsie]

Originally Posted by Warren G

Quality seems to win out over quantity in this thread, and I agree. But not only quality as far as pixels or HD goes, but also quality as far as the picture itself goes. I've posted a lot of pictures of other forums in the past, but I've always followed one rule..

I won't post countless pictures of a celebrity just because they're available on the net, I only save and post pictures that appeal to me, in quality and content. I've seen posters whose thanks counts soar because they post every picture they find..but most of them aren't worth a crap. When I post a picture, I like to think.."would I want to keep this picture"? If everyone would be honest with themselves about this, we would have a really great forum.

This debate largely comes back to the

"Do i post a few samples that encapsulate a set and put the rest in a filehost link" or
"Do I post the entire set and let others choose what they consider the keeper pics"

There is no real outright answer as its pretty clear there are various ways people collect

To use 2 sets in one models thread as an example

This vivthomas set of Melanie Larsen is a pretty good example of non-repetitive
46 hi-res pics and the photographer has avoided the dreaded "move a millimetre" snap



http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...6&postcount=13

If you compare that to this set of 97pics its pretty clear its all down to which sets/who was shooting as to wether a large quantity post is Quality or Overkill



http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...2&postcount=17

The reason behind all those reptitive poses as told to me by a photographer is their getting paid nearly the same rates they were 20/30 years ago for each picture so they snap more.

[electile disfunction]

Originally Posted by buttsie

The reason behind all those reptitive poses as told to me by a photographer is their getting paid nearly the same rates they were 20/30 years ago for each picture so they snap more.

(It also gives marketers easy, unconcocted proof to say they have "20 bejillion more photos than other marketers!")
(e.d. )

[vo1v0d]

The thread is not irrelevant but things have changed in the fifteen months since the last post. I will give an example. I like Viktoria Diamond and have downloaded several of her film averaging around half a gig each. Then, on another forum I found a Hi Def film and downloaded that. I started to watch the HD version and had to turn it off after a few minutes. Natural light, slow climb up her beauitiful leg and every pore, defect or blemish was visible so I stoped watching long before it got to her face. The film ran to nearly one and a half gig. It took up three times as much hard drive as the other films and was actually less watchable. While I like the idea of high definition this is just ridiculous if all the beautiful models end up looking like the 'before' in an advert for skincare products

[Greenman]

Just to add my two-penneth to this. Obviously quality is good, if you have a pin-sharp pic or scan to post then do it, it will be appreciated, but you cannot expect that(unless you've spent your hard-earned on them) newspaper pics to be og high quality-paper fades over time and if you are collector then it shouldn't matter to you what state it is in-within reason of course. I've seen someone posting newspaper stuff which is so bad it should be removed as they've obviously thought that they can make a bit of money on Ebay with it even though it is torn, shabby and you can barely see the girl pictured.

I also believe in the picture being posted in the state it was scanned or found etc. By all means lighten it up a bit and maybe make it look better by contrast control but I don't like the idea of colourising a black and white picture, nor do I think that a picture posted by you needs 'touching up' by another poster because to me that is just trying to grab the glory for yourself and boost your post count. Now that might sound cynical but if a picture is posted 'as found' or 'as scanned' it should be just that - if it was supposed to be in colour it would have been taken like that.

I would however, before people jump down my proverbial throat that I admire the people on here that do take the time to correct things in pictures and the time & care they take is greatly appreciated by many members - you obviously have a great talent and the time/energy etc to do it-but for me I want to see a picture for what it was, not what it could be. I also think that many pictures of a certain quality is just as good as a single post. One thing I can tell you is that are more likely to get thanks from me but as long as I can tell who it is and it is not in such a rough state that it is impossible to see and it's rightful end would be the rubbish bin.

Finally as to the question of quantity. Well if you can post more than two pictures/scans then great go ahead. What drive me up the wall is a poster who has obviously grabbed hundreds of pictures and posts them in one huge flood. Do you really want to scroll down a page filled with nearly 70 pics-no matter how good they may be? I would say split them up into blocks of say a maximum of 10-15 pics per post, that way it is easier to look at than wading a very long post. Also if you use imagebam it will sometimes fail miserably and all you are left with is a page boxes of red X's in them-very frustrating and annoying to many. Think, before you post I would say is the watch phrase there. Would you want to wade through pages and pages of pics?

[thecossack]

I've been on VEF for a quite some time but hardly claim to be a major contributor and I certainly don't have the cred most of the members here have earned.

That said, I do post in several of the '70's-'80's one-woman threads. Most of the "original" stuff in those threads has been seen elsewhere (and posted on VEF) more than once, usually without attribution or credit given.

My attempt is to collect pix from a studio shoot that have been posted piecemeal all over the net, restore them to the best of my ability and add explanations. It's my quiet goal to offer the best quality tribute to my favorites I can.

I also try to create "compilations" based on a particular theme, add anything I have in my private pix collection and vidcaps, give them all a good rehab job and explanation.

I greatly appreciate and admire posters who make an extra effort to post "quality" or a different look instead of massive quantity -- no matter HD, or not.

Personally, I am dismayed at the 50-75-100 pix posts apparently just thrown up with no apparent concern for the "quality" of the overall presentation, whether vintage... or not, on innumerable threads. Many, many of them would appear to violate the dedicated purpose of the "Vintage Erotica Forum."

I appreciate the opportunity to express my opinion here.

[DTravel]

I may be one of the posters that are being complained about in this thread. I've been reading and downloading from forums like this for many years and posting my own caps and some of what I've collected for a smaller number of years. In my experience many people decry forums being "flooded" with posts and say they want smaller numbers of "higher quality" posts. Yet when one looks at the view counts of threads and how many views and downloads the high volume posts get versus the samples with zip/rar download of all posts versus the low volume "high quality" posts, that's the order of popularity by overwhelming margins. Just something to think about.

Personally, if the subject is something/someone I'm interested in I want as much material about them as possible. And I, again personally, prefer a single post of 100 images to 10 posts of 10 image each. The only reason I've ever seen anyone give for that second style is to boost post and thank counts.

All of these in my experience have been consistent over many years and many different forums and websites. My two cents worth, can I have my change now please?

[Greenman]

Just a quick word on this I, and this is not trying to sound big-headed in anyway I assure you - I am more likely to thank someone who has taken the time and trouble to scan their own stuff rather than raid a website and post set after set. I appreciate the time they take to do it, but to me it is better to scan your own stuff because it means you have spent your cash on something you like OR won it on Ebay and want to stand out from the crowd and this is how your reputation is made on forums-the rarer the scans(and I speak as a former serial scanner) the more people will visit the threads you post on and the more likely I for one will thank you EVERY time.