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Yeah, as usual you make sense, Jerry.
As to the "more to photography than gear" point, you know I'm on the same page with you in that regard! I didn't say that explicitly in my response to the question about the specific cameras, but that was the primary thing that informed my feeling about it. I just wrote a "gear answer."
Since I suspect that in this case the issue might be more about that Gear Lust thing than any actual advantage of one of the cameras over the other, I thought of writing some of the things I often write or say to folks who ask my advice on this, such as photography is about photographs, not about cameras. But I didn't go there.
Good, functional, appropriate gear is not unimportant, but all too often the gear becomes the focus — which thing is "best," which has the "best" specifications, which excels in some technical area. That particular manifestation of the natural interest in having good, functional gear can easily become a distraction, can't it? (If folks put the same energy into their pursuit of great images that they sometime put into thinking about the equipment, the sky would be the limit for their photography.)
That's not scolding. That's optimism!
Take care,
Dan
StillFingerz wrote:
Dan, there is a as my last comment. There is so much seriousness in most threads that are just tech babble. Little that is about feel, ergonomics, how well the gear gets out the way. I did not feel the tech babble needed to be re-quoted so took another view, tried to present another option, reason for his wantings.
There is more to photography than just gear, that was my point, if the OP finds this useless at least let him say such.... A lot of folks really need to lighten up a bit, find their organic side and grow it, explore it, see what fruits it might bare, instead of hunting for the elusive megapickle
1/8000th, the QDC and Joystick, three custom functions, perhaps even the P/C Sync socket for flash, could all be reasons to hanker for the 5D2's styling...my 40D is of that same body/feature set and I wonder about these as well as I contemplate 6D, 5D3 or even 5D4, I just didn't think repeating all the tech stuff others had already sighted was necessary
Cheers,
Jerry...Show more →
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