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anthonygh wrote:
The question is deeper than that...read the multitude of posts that equate 'good' images with high definition or dynamic range...qualities that can presumably be best achieved with the 'best' gear...namely...gear that isn't cheap.
There seems to be a new aesthetic in photography biased towards a definition promoted by the camera manufacturers that equates some forms of (technical) image generation as being superior to others...for example....the 50mm 1.2 being superior to the 1.4. This sensor being much better than this one...and so on.
Yep, that's where the rot has crept in. With not a little help from the manufacturer's marketing monkeys, the majority of photographers have come to worship 'sharpness,' resolution, DR, etc. as holy; assigning these attributes value far above mere aesthetic merit. This is - of course - all backwards, but just try convincing a new 5D3 owner! It's impossible. It's too late. He's already chugged a toxic dose of the megapickle flavored kool aid. Maybe, in a few years, he'll start to question his gear fetish. But in the short term, the typical gear dweeb with a high end camera will cheerfully go on snapping amazingly sharp, oversaturated, terminally _boring_ images. What's worse, his aggressive gear enthusiasm will likely infect others with this insidious disease.
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