Robin Smith Offline Upload & Sell: Off
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Completely agree. Dynamic range is the least important characteristic to me and people frequently bang on about it. My film days were with slides so I am use to having almost no dynamic range to play with. Resolution is another. Most people don't print and certainly do not make large prints. Birders like to crop, but those who really care a lot about pixels probably rarely crop, because they then get palpitations for using fewer than the max pixels. I don't much care for noise, dating from my film days, and some add film grain presets to their shots to make them mimic Tri-X etc. I don't do this. I think in general noise is not a main worry for me, except when I am documenting things at extreme low light levels 12,800 ISO + then, obviously, I prefer the least noisy image I can get. However these are not the shots I do for pleasure, more for duty (school sports). I rarely use >3200 ISO otherwise.
As we all know selling gear is always about technical specs, and this is the way it has probably always been, probably even back in the day of wet plates. I think however the days of radical improvements in technological capabilities has drastically slowed, so things are shifting again to things like FPS, buffer depth, write times, AF focusing capabilities. Although I think I want an OM1 I am thinking that I don't really need 50 FPS and the fast AF as I probably won't be shooting subjects that need these capabilities in the future, nor will I be shooting extreme low light shots either, so I may be wasting my money. I think the other thing that happens as you age is that you may begin to question why taking photos is actually "important". I just get pleasure out of it, for some reason, but sometimes I think I will wake up to a time when the experience is all that matters and a camera or phone is not needed. Hasn't happened yet, but it might.
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