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3. If there was a camera system that was perfect we'd still argue about it. There isn't. And we still argue about it.
We have cameras with the features people were wanting 5 years ago and of course people still aren't happy. If we jumped another 20 years and brought out things people can't even imagine now, they would extrapolate that and want still more. They would also be nit picking over what incredible unknown feature now is better than what the other camera has even though they would both be miracles by today's standards.
4. Eventually someone will try to tell us what "real pros" should and shouldn't use and it will involve a DSLR and they will be wrong.
I couldn't give a damn what people use but I have had a gutfull of reading the idiotic insecurities of people with small mans syndrome saying " That mirrorless will take over". Pigs arse!
What is taking over is cameras on phones, Be under no illusion about that!
Maybe Mirrorless will take over in the pro market one day but it's a bloody long way off yet if it ever happens but why keep ramming it down peoples throats now as if anyone not using mirrorless is committing an offense against humanity?
Do you feel a need to have your personal choice justified and approved THAT badly?
5. They're just cameras people. If someone else's choice is so offensive you feel the need to have a go at them, go for a walk for God's sake.
Exactly.
Tools of the trade. If you can't pick up any camera, including a fully manual one and pump out decent work, then I think people need to worry more about their own skills ( or lack thereof) than having the machine do all the work for them. The degree of automation on any modern camera is well past " Making things easier" so the shooter can concentrate on the, job, they are well into becoming a crutch now.
I also don't understand the attachment people have for their gear like it was a family member or living thing. I remember posting comments about doing underwater photography and the plethora of people telling me " You wouldn't catch me putting my camera under water no matter how good the housing". Why Not? You would turn down highly profitable work because the bit of machinery you would use that you will cast aside like yesterdays newspaper as soon as a new model comes out might get wet or damaged? Do you not drive your car in case someone runs into it?
So what if your camera does get wet or breaks? I made enough money every week to buy a new camera and still have money in the bank so what's the drama? They are machines, not your favorite pet Dog or a priceless and irreplaceable heirloom.
Work the bastards to death and hope they die as quickly as possible because when they do you know you will have made a shipload of money and the cost of buying a new one will be totally insignificant to what you earned with the thing.
If you are running a decent photo business of course. If you are just playing tiddly winks pretending it's a business, might be a different thing.
6. In 5 years or less someone will tell you somewhere on the internet that EVERY camera available today is not suitable for *professional* photography because they're too slow, have too little DR, don't have enough card slots, a big enough buffer or the lens range is too limited. They will be compensating for having small man parts.
If you take varying and differing opinions, that happened long ago. Someone will say this is no good and someone will say that is no good yet funnily enough, there are many cameras that are exactly what people said they wanted not so long ago. Now they have them they are still whinging and will be forever more.
I think people fall for a lot of media and marketing hype.
Magazines, web sites and general internet hype and ego tripping are the main reason people have to keep getting the latest and greatest. Reviews and articles show images taken with the latest Techno camera that are nothing a Pentax K-1000 couldn't have done back in 1976!
These days it's more about looking the part and social acceptance by ones peers than the product produced for the paying client.
7 The photographer's actually making money using their cameras you think are too big/small/ black/white/slow/fast etc couldn't give a flying fuck about what we think of their gear choices. They'll just go shoot.
Right again.
I buy a new cam when the old on is uneconomical to repair. This buying new gear when it comes out, because it's new, just makes me shake my head. It takes me time to learn how to use a new cam near it's potential, I don't want to be repeating that every 12-18 months.
The other thing is most camera's have more features and capabilities than 95% of shooters will ever need anyway. As much as it will upset some, wedding Photography does not exactly demand NASA level equipment to do decent work with. Yeah, I have heard all the excuses and they are just that, excuses. The people that make a big deal of carrying on about little things with gear either do not know their craft well enough or are lazy. Probably both.
Like I have said before, what will this next camera do that solves a problem your clients are currently complaining about and what complaints did your current camera fix that they complained about with the last one?
8. Your customers don't care either.
Most important point of all.
Shooters can have a self indulgent wank about giving their clients the best and all that but it is nothing more than self indulgent Drivel. Those that are so hell bent and dedicated to giving their customers the very best are not using 35mm or mirrorless formats, they are using Medium formats.
I have literally shot and 10's of thousands of images on my little Canon compacts and the clients were stoked and asking me to come back again. Not one single person asked me about file size or image sharpness, colour rendition or any of the other technicalities shooters fuss over sooo much.
9. Medium format photographers are secretly laughing at you and your puny little cameras and sensors.
Exactly what I think about every single time I read anyone carrying on about size and weight of modern cameras. I was still shooting MF on weddings 15 years ago and never did or remember anyone droning on about the size and weight of the things like they were talking about bushel bags full of wheat like so many seem to do now.
If your modern camera is too heavy for you, you are male and under 80 years old, have a big bowl of harden the fk up and get to the gym.
Clearly you need to get off your backside, man up and get a lot fitter.
I have humped around a lot heavier cameras for a lot longer than many people here so don't complain what you have now is sooo heavy you can't cope and a couple of hundred grams or less is going to make some fantastic difference to your ability to make quality pictures. that's marketing bull pushed by camera companies to brainwash suckers into thinking they need to buy the latest offering . Shoot one wedding on a MF and then come tell my how heavy your 35 Format DSLR or whatever is.
That's what I think.......
And you are far from alone!
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