Camera and GAS or maybe not

Adam-Green said:
Who are we to judge your images, your Flickr page or how often you change your gear!

I see where you are coming from, maybe you get enjoyment from the challenge of using your gear to take photos. After you get familiar with your equipment, you loose the challenge. I might be wrong, however, I have a similar trait.

How about going to back to canon, it's been a long while. New interface, button layout, different character.

Maybe get some different equipment. Have you done much flash?
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Please don't ask him about flash :)
 
EspressoJunkie said:
Speaking as someone who has been through more cameras and systems than I care to admit, if you are constantly chasing the perfect image then you are always going to be disappointed. Of course it's lovely to have the latest and best gear, and yes in certain situations it will make taking a picture easier.

However I find for me most of the time it's often a very negligible difference, and the fact is that the only people who would notice any difference between pictures taken with this camera or that camera are other photographers, and we all know what we're like......
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I often look through flickr not knowing what camera or lens took what and choose a number of pics i think are exceptional to me,well amazing the different cameras and lens that took them from point and shoots to expensive dlsr's it seems really only relevant to the person taking the photo
 
SsSsSsSsSnake said:
I often look through flickr not knowing what camera or lens took what and choose a number of pics i think are exceptional to me,well amazing the different cameras and lens that took them from point and shoots to expensive dlsr's it seems really only relevant to the person taking the photo
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Are these usually small photos that are no good for pixel peepers. I hate people that set a standard size
 
Most cameras are capable of taking a photo of an amazing thing, and it will probably look amazing.

Whether the camera can keep up with action or take usable photos when the conditions are less than perfect is never seen in a single image.

And just because one can demonstrate they can capture a photo in less than ideal conditions, it does not mean that it can be done consistently and when the photographer actually plans it.
 
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Photography, in itself, is a very shallow hobby.

WHY did you ever pick up a camera to start with? I very much doubt that it was because you saw one in the shop and thought, "Oh that looks fun to play with!". Most of us started not with a camera but a 'subject'.. we saw 'something' we wanted a photo of... THAT begged we get a camera to take the photo. What we wanted a photo of, was probably not all that exiting; a holiday snapshot, probably a landmark, which, likely came out a bit blurry and with a bystander walking across the frame and we probably shot the same scene as was printed on a post-card at the kiosk, that didn't have distracting pedestrians in the way, or fuzzy focus or bad exposure.... but it probably DIDN'T have mum, dad, wife, kids or whoever we were with in it, something of unique interest only ourselves..... and we CHERISHED IT!

Wondering how to get 'better' photo's when opportunities came along, we might have started asking more enthusiastic photographer's advice, or reading the mags; developing our interest, from a 'casual snapper', interested in the SUBJECT into 'foh~tog~raa~fee' interested more in the 'Picture'...Which is to walk along the edge of a slippery precipice, in which rather than looking for a camera to take pictures of stuff that interests us, we become interested in the camera and finding things that often interest no~one to take pictures of with it.... We we start taking photo's for the sake of 'doing photography'. And lacking the original interest that inspired us to pick up the camera in the first place, no wonder anyone starts to feel that they aren't getting so much from the pursuit, or that the gear isn't delivering the enjoyment, we hoped. {and all too often creating watermarks, and making face-book photo pages or starting flikr streams, looking for 3rd party endorsement & acclamation to feel we are getting some sort of gratification from it all....}

It isn't and never WAS 'in' the camera to begin with, and you have to go BACK to that true beginning, to find the interest, not where you 'thought' you started, first picking up a camera.

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Nuzik said:
sold my Nikon as it just sat there for months
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So? There are, within my reach as I type, at least half a dozen cameras of various types 'just sat there'; many for an awful lot longer than just a few months.. most sitting with film still in them.... but that's another matter... But I am quite content to let them 'just sit there'.. until I have something worth pointing them at, that I WANT a photo of!

My 'main' hobby and interest is motorbikes. Camera's then are rather like my carb balancing gauges or piston ring compressor.. those too can sit there for months, YEARS even, without being used, unless I have a bank of carburetors to balance or a piston ring to compress into a re-bored cylinder! I don't look at them and think... "Oh no! I must get my motorbike engine re-bored so I can use my piston ring compressor!" Or "I better go balance my carburetors to give my balancing gauges a reason to be!" They are 'tools', like the camera, to be used, when need or opportunity arises. They can sit there for EVER as far as I'm concerned, and I'm actually quite happy when most of my mechanic tools DON'T have a job to do! Means my bike aint broke!

Nuzik said:
I felt it lacked excitement.
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Yeah.... my motorbike.... or my mechanic tools. You know I don't look at a spanner and think "Oh, that's exiting! Look its a 10mm AF combination spanner with 12mm offset on the ring, its SOOO much more exiting than the Japanese Standard Cross head screwdriver, though THAT is quite useful, because 'ordinary' cross head screwdriver's usually have a posidrive form and chew up the heads of screws on most motorbikes, you know.. But, here, look at this, this is my latest acquisition, its a 12/24v 20a 'fast-charge' battery charger, with voltage and ammeter display and selectable voltage and charge rates.... " Nor do I open my toolbox and look at my sockets and think, "Oh this is SO exiting, I MUST go find something to take to bits with them!*" As artifacts, the tools, in themselves are just NOT particularly exiting, are they?

My motorbike, as an artifact, IS one more likely to engender 'excitement' from any-one.... I don't, when out and about with a camera, very often have small children coming over with wide eyes and asking "How fast that go mister?" or old men, wandering over misty eyed, to tell me they used to have a BSA before they got married, like I do when I am putting shopping in my motor-bikes panniers! But even so, sat on the patio, its just a lump of metal, and not particularly 'exiting'.

To many though, a motorbike is an 'exiting' thing to look at. Mostly in the idea of the thrill of actually riding it, or the ideas and images they have of 'speed' or 'freedom' or going places and doing things on it; which is usually magnified and romanticized by so few of them having actual first hand experience of riding one or going anywhere on one, or if they have, that memory being slightly idealized by rose tinted reminiscence, which filters out dodging half blind car drivers pulling out on them, or wetcrotch syndrome from leaky waterproofs in our damp British climate; in their imaginations, every day is sunny and brilliant! An awful lot of that engendered 'interest' and 'excitement' then, is simply lack of familiarity and shear imagination...

Which, I probably lack. Idiot pulling out from a driveway between terrace houses and parked cars in front of them, across me, without looking yesterday, when it was rather dark, cold and miserable, IS still rather fresh in my mind! I probably had it when I was younger, before I started riding bikes for real or had just started and it was all 'new', and I may have it again, when I am in my dotage, and have forgotten all but the sunny days, and start accosting poor blokes in the street and making comments like, "I used to ride them when they burned PETROL, you know!" But, here and now, after almost forty years riding the things, my 'excitement' is somewhat better tempered by the 'familiarity' of it all....

But that is a 'plateau' that afflicts many people's enthusiasm for many pursuits, and photography is just one of them, where it's not so much showing up the lack of enthusiasm for photography, but the lack of 'something else' OTHER than photography... photography is like ketchup, it's nice on your chips, but its not very nice to eat on its own!

So I'm quite content, in my plateau of enthusiasm, for my motor-bike {or spanners or cameras} to 'just sit there', most of the time; may be a bit of a buzz to take it for a ride, but, it's still not really the 'bike' that's the thrill... its the RIDE, the action of doing... but even MORE, the going places; exploring, seeing, EXPERIENCING stuff... Which is when my camera 'may' become relevant, may become useful... A 'compliment' to my hobby, rather than a hobby in itself. Sat there in the bag, the camera is NOT 'the' hobby; there has to be a 'subject' to give the camera purpose and relevance and stimulate the 'act' of taking a photo; and that begs having a subject to take a photo of... it is not to be found 'in' the camera, its to be found almost ANYWHERE but 'in' the camera. There is nothing in my camera that will make situations to take a photo! It wont host a motorcycle hillclimb, or or organise a bike rally. It wont magnetically attract a load of bikes or bikers to the camera so I can take their pictures!! I have to go FIND the 'interest' the 'excitement, to put in-front of the lens. I have to look at the what's on bulletins, to find interesting events to possibly visit, I have to plan a trip to one; I have to get there, probably on my own bike.... THEN I have to go hunt the photo ops.

The excitement is in the ENTIRETY of the act; the research, the planning, and the doing, but STILL mostly in 'the subject'. NOT the 'camera', a light tight box with a bit of film {or silly~con} in it, that does NOTHING unless you make it.

And you know what? After all that, all the inspiration to get out, find stuff to go do, and go see, and make opportunities I MAY want to point a camera at? When it actually gets to it... I've probably HAD most of the 'fun'... photo I take home is just a bit of icing on the cake, an aid memoir to remind me of the 'fun' and the 'excitement' I had AROUND around taking that photo. But.... Metering the exposure? Choosing the lens? Deciding on aperture settings or shutter settings? Lying down in the mud to find a good angle? Err... ACTUALLY, like as much as playing with my spanner's can be quite a lot of 'fun'... I COULD quite easily live without it, you know... and have 'fun' without the camera.

Nuzik said:
{answer to what do you hope to find in another camera} Find a love for photography again.
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And here in is the nub. Analogies with whether its nicer to drive a BMW M3 or a Skoda Fabia or whatever, fade into irrelevance. UNLESS you have somewhere to drive, neither is going to be doing much for you. The excitement is not in the car, its in what you do and where you go with the car.

ITS NOT IN THE CAMERA!!!!! You need to go back to the very start; you need to ask yourself WHY you first picked up any sort of camera to start with. WHAT interested you enough to take a photo of it? And WHY?

And you can LEAVE the camera 'just sitting there'... you don't NEED a camera to go see those things, but its THERE that you will find the interest, the excitement the 'love' again, and the inspiration to pick up a camera and record them... WHEN it very very little matters what that camera may be... you have HAD 99% of the fun, and the excitement JUST getting out and finding something to be interested enough in to want a photo of it!

The interest, the excitement, the passion is NOT in the camera, its every where BUT in the camera... and THAT is where you will find the answer to your question.

Bobsyeruncle said:
I'd try and find a new hobby. :)
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then ISN'T 'Harsh'.. its bang on the nail. He said a new hobby, not a different hobby.... think about that... you don't have to give up photography, just find something ELSE that interests you to do... and IF it interests you enough to take photo's of it, all the better... if not, at least you are enjoying SOMETHING!

Think outside the box with the bit of silly-con in it and an LCD screen. in fact stop looking at screens, go look at life in the real world; THAT is where the grail you are seeking lies!

Photography, in itself is a VERY shallow hobby, but a wonderful condiment to many many others.

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*OK, actually I might! Number of motorcycle 'projects' I have knocking about would give lie to the suggestion I dont. And yes, I do enjoy 'playing spanners'.. but the inspiration to get them out and do something with them, like restore an old trials-bike, is only in part stimulated by having the tools that would let me. It's because I want to see a heap of rusty old junk, turned into a thing of beuty, and probably go get it rather muddy in a quarry! I DON'T go walking up and down the street, with my toolbox, knocking on doors, asking if anyone has a motorbike that they want 'fixing'..... they usually come knocking on MY door when they do.. A~N~D expect me to perform some kind of miracle, making a smashed piston and bent valve whole and straight again, by voodoo, and not costing any money.... but that's another story all together!!! Point is, the interest and the inspiration still comes from the subject, the MOTORBIKES, not the spanners in the box to tinker with them.
 
Nuzik said:
Are these usually small photos that are no good for pixel peepers. I hate people that set a standard size
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How did you get on when you only got 6x4 or 7x5 prints back from the developers, did you use a magnifying glass? ;) :p

Obviously just pulling your leg, but you do lose sight of the big picture if all you're doing is scrutinising the technical merit imo.
 
snerkler said:
How did you get on when you only got 6x4 or 7x5 prints back from the developers, did you use a magnifying glass? ;) :p

Obviously just pulling your leg, but you do lose sight of the big picture if all you're doing is scrutinising the technical merit imo.
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Depends on why you are taking photos and looking at others i suppose. To look and to scrutinise is to learn how to and how not to.
Im only 34 dude, i dont think i owned a proper camera that wasn't digital
 
Nuzik said:
Depends on why you are taking photos and looking at others i suppose. To look and to scrutinise is to learn how to and how not to.
Im only 34 dude, i dont think i owned a proper camera that wasn't digital
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I've only got 5 years on you and didn't go digital until I was 25 ish. You must've started late ;)
 
Teflon-Mike said:
Photography, in itself, is a very shallow hobby.

WHY did you ever pick up a camera to start with? I very much doubt that it was because you saw one in the shop and thought, "Oh that looks fun to play with!". Most of us started not with a camera but a 'subject'.. we saw 'something' we wanted a photo of... THAT begged we get a camera to take the photo. What we wanted a photo of, was probably not all that exiting; a holiday snapshot, probably a landmark, which, likely came out a bit blurry and with a bystander walking across the frame and we probably shot the same scene as was printed on a post-card at the kiosk, that didn't have distracting pedestrians in the way, or fuzzy focus or bad exposure.... but it probably DIDN'T have mum, dad, wife, kids or whoever we were with in it, something of unique interest only ourselves..... and we CHERISHED IT!

Wondering how to get 'better' photo's when opportunities came along, we might have started asking more enthusiastic photographer's advice, or reading the mags; developing our interest, from a 'casual snapper', interested in the SUBJECT into 'foh~tog~raa~fee' interested more in the 'Picture'...Which is to walk along the edge of a slippery precipice, in which rather than looking for a camera to take pictures of stuff that interests us, we become interested in the camera and finding things that often interest no~one to take pictures of with it.... We we start taking photo's for the sake of 'doing photography'. And lacking the original interest that inspired us to pick up the camera in the first place, no wonder anyone starts to feel that they aren't getting so much from the pursuit, or that the gear isn't delivering the enjoyment, we hoped. {and all too often creating watermarks, and making face-book photo pages or starting flikr streams, looking for 3rd party endorsement & acclamation to feel we are getting some sort of gratification from it all....}

It isn't and never WAS 'in' the camera to begin with, and you have to go BACK to that true beginning, to find the interest, not where you 'thought' you started, first picking up a camera.

Picking up on a couple of comments:


So? There are, within my reach as I type, at least half a dozen cameras of various types 'just sat there'; many for an awful lot longer than just a few months.. most sitting with film still in them.... but that's another matter... But I am quite content to let them 'just sit there'.. until I have something worth pointing them at, that I WANT a photo of!

My 'main' hobby and interest is motorbikes. Camera's then are rather like my carb balancing gauges or piston ring compressor.. those too can sit there for months, YEARS even, without being used, unless I have a bank of carburetors to balance or a piston ring to compress into a re-bored cylinder! I don't look at them and think... "Oh no! I must get my motorbike engine re-bored so I can use my piston ring compressor!" Or "I better go balance my carburetors to give my balancing gauges a reason to be!" They are 'tools', like the camera, to be used, when need or opportunity arises. They can sit there for EVER as far as I'm concerned, and I'm actually quite happy when most of my mechanic tools DON'T have a job to do! Means my bike aint broke!



Yeah.... my motorbike.... or my mechanic tools. You know I don't look at a spanner and think "Oh, that's exiting! Look its a 10mm AF combination spanner with 12mm offset on the ring, its SOOO much more exiting than the Japanese Standard Cross head screwdriver, though THAT is quite useful, because 'ordinary' cross head screwdriver's usually have a posidrive form and chew up the heads of screws on most motorbikes, you know.. But, here, look at this, this is my latest acquisition, its a 12/24v 20a 'fast-charge' battery charger, with voltage and ammeter display and selectable voltage and charge rates.... " Nor do I open my toolbox and look at my sockets and think, "Oh this is SO exiting, I MUST go find something to take to bits with them!*" As artifacts, the tools, in themselves are just NOT particularly exiting, are they?

My motorbike, as an artifact, IS one more likely to engender 'excitement' from any-one.... I don't, when out and about with a camera, very often have small children coming over with wide eyes and asking "How fast that go mister?" or old men, wandering over misty eyed, to tell me they used to have a BSA before they got married, like I do when I am putting shopping in my motor-bikes panniers! But even so, sat on the patio, its just a lump of metal, and not particularly 'exiting'.

To many though, a motorbike is an 'exiting' thing to look at. Mostly in the idea of the thrill of actually riding it, or the ideas and images they have of 'speed' or 'freedom' or going places and doing things on it; which is usually magnified and romanticized by so few of them having actual first hand experience of riding one or going anywhere on one, or if they have, that memory being slightly idealized by rose tinted reminiscence, which filters out dodging half blind car drivers pulling out on them, or wetcrotch syndrome from leaky waterproofs in our damp British climate; in their imaginations, every day is sunny and brilliant! An awful lot of that engendered 'interest' and 'excitement' then, is simply lack of familiarity and shear imagination...

Which, I probably lack. Idiot pulling out from a driveway between terrace houses and parked cars in front of them, across me, without looking yesterday, when it was rather dark, cold and miserable, IS still rather fresh in my mind! I probably had it when I was younger, before I started riding bikes for real or had just started and it was all 'new', and I may have it again, when I am in my dotage, and have forgotten all but the sunny days, and start accosting poor blokes in the street and making comments like, "I used to ride them when they burned PETROL, you know!" But, here and now, after almost forty years riding the things, my 'excitement' is somewhat better tempered by the 'familiarity' of it all....

But that is a 'plateau' that afflicts many people's enthusiasm for many pursuits, and photography is just one of them, where it's not so much showing up the lack of enthusiasm for photography, but the lack of 'something else' OTHER than photography... photography is like ketchup, it's nice on your chips, but its not very nice to eat on its own!

So I'm quite content, in my plateau of enthusiasm, for my motor-bike {or spanners or cameras} to 'just sit there', most of the time; may be a bit of a buzz to take it for a ride, but, it's still not really the 'bike' that's the thrill... its the RIDE, the action of doing... but even MORE, the going places; exploring, seeing, EXPERIENCING stuff... Which is when my camera 'may' become relevant, may become useful... A 'compliment' to my hobby, rather than a hobby in itself. Sat there in the bag, the camera is NOT 'the' hobby; there has to be a 'subject' to give the camera purpose and relevance and stimulate the 'act' of taking a photo; and that begs having a subject to take a photo of... it is not to be found 'in' the camera, its to be found almost ANYWHERE but 'in' the camera. There is nothing in my camera that will make situations to take a photo! It wont host a motorcycle hillclimb, or or organise a bike rally. It wont magnetically attract a load of bikes or bikers to the camera so I can take their pictures!! I have to go FIND the 'interest' the 'excitement, to put in-front of the lens. I have to look at the what's on bulletins, to find interesting events to possibly visit, I have to plan a trip to one; I have to get there, probably on my own bike.... THEN I have to go hunt the photo ops.

The excitement is in the ENTIRETY of the act; the research, the planning, and the doing, but STILL mostly in 'the subject'. NOT the 'camera', a light tight box with a bit of film {or silly~con} in it, that does NOTHING unless you make it.

And you know what? After all that, all the inspiration to get out, find stuff to go do, and go see, and make opportunities I MAY want to point a camera at? When it actually gets to it... I've probably HAD most of the 'fun'... photo I take home is just a bit of icing on the cake, an aid memoir to remind me of the 'fun' and the 'excitement' I had AROUND around taking that photo. But.... Metering the exposure? Choosing the lens? Deciding on aperture settings or shutter settings? Lying down in the mud to find a good angle? Err... ACTUALLY, like as much as playing with my spanner's can be quite a lot of 'fun'... I COULD quite easily live without it, you know... and have 'fun' without the camera.



And here in is the nub. Analogies with whether its nicer to drive a BMW M3 or a Skoda Fabia or whatever, fade into irrelevance. UNLESS you have somewhere to drive, neither is going to be doing much for you. The excitement is not in the car, its in what you do and where you go with the car.

ITS NOT IN THE CAMERA!!!!! You need to go back to the very start; you need to ask yourself WHY you first picked up any sort of camera to start with. WHAT interested you enough to take a photo of it? And WHY?

And you can LEAVE the camera 'just sitting there'... you don't NEED a camera to go see those things, but its THERE that you will find the interest, the excitement the 'love' again, and the inspiration to pick up a camera and record them... WHEN it very very little matters what that camera may be... you have HAD 99% of the fun, and the excitement JUST getting out and finding something to be interested enough in to want a photo of it!

The interest, the excitement, the passion is NOT in the camera, its every where BUT in the camera... and THAT is where you will find the answer to your question.


then ISN'T 'Harsh'.. its bang on the nail. He said a new hobby, not a different hobby.... think about that... you don't have to give up photography, just find something ELSE that interests you to do... and IF it interests you enough to take photo's of it, all the better... if not, at least you are enjoying SOMETHING!

Think outside the box with the bit of silly-con in it and an LCD screen. in fact stop looking at screens, go look at life in the real world; THAT is where the grail you are seeking lies!

Photography, in itself is a VERY shallow hobby, but a wonderful condiment to many many others.

~~~ ~~~ ~~~​

*OK, actually I might! Number of motorcycle 'projects' I have knocking about would give lie to the suggestion I dont. And yes, I do enjoy 'playing spanners'.. but the inspiration to get them out and do something with them, like restore an old trials-bike, is only in part stimulated by having the tools that would let me. It's because I want to see a heap of rusty old junk, turned into a thing of beuty, and probably go get it rather muddy in a quarry! I DON'T go walking up and down the street, with my toolbox, knocking on doors, asking if anyone has a motorbike that they want 'fixing'..... they usually come knocking on MY door when they do.. A~N~D expect me to perform some kind of miracle, making a smashed piston and bent valve whole and straight again, by voodoo, and not costing any money.... but that's another story all together!!! Point is, the interest and the inspiration still comes from the subject, the MOTORBIKES, not the spanners in the box to tinker with them.
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Ok a few points, you saying that driving isn't fun or enjoyable unless you have somewhere to go i would say is wrong, the amount of friends that love just going out and taking their cars in undeniable that people enjoy driving them.

To say a camera is a tool is to simplify but life itself and everything about it. Why must i have a subject i need to take a photo of when the art can be as simple as pressing down on the shutter button? Have a grabbed a pencil, a paint brush or a pen and wondered all over the page until i was there with what i wanted to draw. Its not always about having a purpose for what we do but doing it with purpose. If i lived my life with thinking that this is a means to an end or its a tool then why not carry that over and think my wife is a baby harbour-er and i only need to have coitus when we want to procreate?

Im not saying you are wrong with what you are saying but any take but try and love and live a little. I like to take my camera out for a walk and take a photo it doesn't mean im crazy it means its there if i need it or want it to be. If i only have my camera for when it was needed it would only come out at birthdays and xmas and processing then raws would be as depressing as a 2gb SD card.

Now lets get on to my facebook, twitter, instagram, flickr and i think i have 500px as well im not sure. Why you ask why are things watermarked. Well sometimes i do paid work. I started a website as a blog from AVForums showing my path of photography and showing my PS skills for the bits i did. I then elevated that to how it is now, and its updated nt very often but then are any of my sites languishing in the deep of the internet.


is this more an attack of my or a plight of one mans ask if he has issues or wont ever find what he needs. Im here on a path whether that journey is interested for some or not thats down to them, but whilst i fight with my deamons both online and in my head striving to do as well as i can i will keep going and hope the tool i have gets me there

much love

N
 
Nuzik said:
Yes Ed, but if I have a photo that's 4000 x 3600 and it's oof but I stick it online at 900 x 700 it will look fine. I'm after improving not compromising.
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Improving technique. The least important part of photography. IMO

As usual I'm out of step with the technical nerds on this forum. :D
 
Nuzik said:
Yes Ed, but if I have a photo that's 4000 x 3600 and it's oof but I stick it online at 900 x 700 it will look fine. I'm after improving not compromising.
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Striving to improve is a good thing but not to the detriment of actually shooting anything because it's not pixel-level sharp at 200%

We all want to deliver results we are proud of but life isn't always pin-sharp.
 
Ed Sutton said:
Improving technique. The least important part of photography. IMO

As usual I'm out of step with the technical nerds on this forum. :D
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Debateable :p No good having a picture that's so dark or blurred you can't see anything ;)
 
simon ess said:
With my photography, that would be a distinct improvement.

I'm still struggling to decide if this thread is about photography or gear.
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I thought it was it was about counselling for Neil ;)
 
I do understand where Neil is coming from. I've been enjoying photography for 39 years and as my camera fund expanded I tried different kit. I loved shooting with my Olympus EM1 and after shooting my daughters wedding i decided to try full frame (D750). I was so disappointed after spending so long with MFT i discovered that i prefer an EVF!

Still wanting to stick to FF i went down the Sony A7ii route and a series of expensive glass but I was still not happy with my photographs. I think this may have been my technique with FF but I was not enjoying my hobby so I sold the lot with a view to returning to MFT. In my case accepting that some of it was my technique and acknowledging that and the cost of FF glass really helped. :)

However, Fuji is calling and that will probably be my next move. Mirrorless, an EVF and good quality sensor... until the next time.

We are all individual as are our abilities and reasons for this hobby are equally as varied.
 
rjbell said:
That really good photo you liked on flickr that when you pixel peeped wasn't quite as sharp as it first appeared, is still a really good photo don't you know?
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I dont like that many, so no! it has to be. I only have one page of liked/favourite photos lol
 
You're a hard man to please. Suggest you try a yoga meditation holiday then come back and pick up a camera. Free your mind to free your creativity. I think most photographers have a phase when the camera sits idle for a while. It'll come back at some point but you have to try.
 
Unlocker said:
As a Pentaxian it is everything the reviews say it is! Awesome image quality and build and if you can use pixel shift, probably the best full frame image quality out there.

As a landscape / macro / studio camera it is fantastic and half the price of a 5D mark iv.

There are limitations as with any system, main ones are lens options and autofocus speed / tracking performance and this is why this year I bought a D500 and a 400mm f2.8. If I could put the D500 performance in a K-mount camera, the Nikon kit would be sold in a heartbeat.
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Yeah its the lens options (especially wide) that concern me a little, although seems to be covered for the initial things I'd want to buy (24-70 f2.8 mainly), its mainly for landscape and maybe some travel shooting so the AF doesn't bother me too much, I imagine its probably close to what my old D800 was like (if anything better in the dark according to reviews). Spotted a good offer on an almost brand new body (Open Box Return at £1500) its hard to pass up the chance to try it!
 
Nuzik said:
I dont like that many, so no! it has to be. I only have one page of liked/favourite photos lol
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You wasn't audiophile before getting into photography by any chance were you? You suffer the same traits. So busy trying to produce the best sound possible you forget to just use it for its purpose and listen to music.
 
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Nuzik said:
I used to have separates but since the kids it's just a home cinema amp now. That does need updated but will do for now :(
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And a expensive carbon fibre bike by any chance? :)
 
Neil are you going to follow Rookies and get a d500.? Lol JK,im interested in what your next purchase will be if
you havent already bought something .
 
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