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 p.21 #9 · After 13 years of all Sony, I'm trying Nikon | |
chez wrote:
I grow a vegi garden every year because I get a joy of planting and caring for the vegis throughout the year and when ready to harvest, I enjoy the fruits of my labour. I could easily just go to the market and buy my vegis, but I would miss out on the joy of cultivating my own, the same goes with my photography…the journey is just as rewarding as the finished print.
I see the analogy. But sorry, shooting video of a bird at 30fps with pre-capture and AI-trained autofocus only to pluck a good looking frame later (which will be done automatically for you by AI next year anyway) is not the same as gardening. It is much closer to going to the supermarket, maybe even a restaurant. Most of us here never leave restaurants and never touch that dirty soil with our manicured gentle hands. :-)
There was a thread here recently, in the mirrorless gear section, where folks were debating what photography genre was the most challenging. And the wildlife photographers were bragging how challenging it was for them to get their ass out of bed at 4am, put heavy clothes on, get in the car and be out there under (god forbid!) uncomfortable temperatures in order to... make it to a restaurant.
Want to do gardening? Then get yourself a roll of ISO 100 film, load it into a manually focused black box, and go hunt for the decisive moment. Next, develop film at exactly 37.8°C ±0.1 and wet-print in a dark room while inhaling fumes of RA4 chems. And if nobody hangs your print on their wall, consider your gardening a failure because nobody eats your crops.
gdanmitchell wrote:
If one brand/model or lens/camera/tripod/whatever was truly and objectively significantly better than all of the other choices, photographers would all eventually lean that direction. But that hasn’t happened. In fact, when we look around a great photographs and the excellent photographers who make them it becomes obvious that they are using virtually every brand, model, and type of gear.
Agreed! Because all these brands and features exist only to satisfy GAS. As I said here repeatedly: there is no photographic reason for Sony to be making so many bodies! The C-series isn't really that compact, the R-series doesn't really offer meaningfully higher resolution, etc. They are meant to be excuses to own several, because any Sony body can make any photograph in skilled hands. The existence of these made-up camera categories is proof that for most people the joy of gear acquisition is higher than the joy of making a photograph, and it's not a bad thing. I encourage all gearheads to proudly acknowledge this fact. Stop being silly and pretend that you "need" X for your "photography". Just buy it, put it into a dry cabinet, and never use it like the rest of us. It's perfectly normal and should be encouraged to grow GDP.
gdanmitchell wrote:
As someone once said (paraphrased and modified a bit): “The least significant problem you’ll need to resolve as a photographer is, ‘Nikon, Canon, Sony, or Fujifilm?’.”
YMMV.
That is incorrect for most people. For them, it is the most significant problem, because one of these brands may deliver 15.5 stops of dynamic range instead of just 15. Which brand is leading this year? Which youtuber to trust? The solution is to acquire them all: Nikon, Canon, Sony and Fujifilm. And then some more! ... and get a "backup body" too! How can one survive without a backup? And a camera skin! And the cage! Remember how important camera cages have always been for producing stellar photography?
Mark my words: in the not-so-distant future Nikon, Sony and Canon will be selling hats. Those hats will have a multi-gigapixel light field camera mounted on top with a 360° FOV, filming the world around you in 3D at 120fps all the time and streaming the resulting 3D model into an AI classifier which will determine the framing and zoom for most scenic shots. Because it's a model with the light angle recorded, the AI will be able decide what to focus on, which aperture to simulate, and apply appropriate lighting and skies to maximize Instagram engagement. And you all will be sitting here justifying owning two different hats from different brands because it somehow enhances your "photography". Some will complain about having to wear the hat at 4am in the morning, and others will even compare that to gardening!
(I am fully aware that it's impossible to separate sarcasm, mocking and seriousness in some of my posts, but that's why the Internet got invented)
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