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A very interesting read

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Posted by jk: Sat Jan 12th, 2013 05:27

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http://leicarumors.com/2013/01/08/guest-post-why-i-am-leaving-leica-for-micro-four-thirds.aspx/#more-19888

I found this a very interesting read. Technically honest with some insightful comments.
I think that maybe we are reaching/have reached a technology plateau for cameras. We have enough MP, features, functions, bells and whistles.
Time to get back to just taking photos again.
Great.

The last 12 years on the technology train has been interesting, wallet sapping and a big learning curve but now I think we are back where we were in 70/80s where the camera is less important that capturing the image.

Some cameras may be a little better for a lot more cost but all cameras are very capable. Is the photographer behind the camera as capable as his tools?

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Posted by richw: Sat Jan 12th, 2013 07:28

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I agree. Took the $728 (including lens) Sony RX100 today to a famous ally way here (famous for it's graffiti, will post some pictures later). I was surrounded by folk (lots of them) wielding DSLR's, some even with tripods.

I felt quite sorry for them all, my camera was small, discrete, ego free and slipped into my pocket as I walked away and popped into a nice local Tapas restaurant.

Will they have taken better photos than me? Maybe, but not because of the camera they were wielding. Watching them one or two seemed to have a different idea, a dead flower in the foreground, one girl climbed into a window to take a shot from a different angle (I got a shot of her doing this). On the whole they were probably taking a lot more time to get the same shot as me, and I'm sure mine will hold up IQ wise, and I went through a lot quicker than anybody else (an inpatient wife can influence this).

Maybe I need the expensive D3s with selected expensive 2.8 lenses at home not to feel intimidated by the the DSLRs, whilst I'm walking around with a P&S, but maybe I've just grown up.

Of course the Sony RX100 isn't the same as a P&S that was available 2 years ago, so maybe I'm just ahead of the curve.

Posted by richw: Sat Jan 12th, 2013 07:54

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Having written this I just went into the kitchen and looked at the first ever of my shots I printed large (22"). It's a shot of the 12 Apostles taken from the viewing point on the Great Ocean Rd at dusk. Taken with a D70.

It"s probably a shot most of the guests we have comment on. Magnificent view taken at time when the lighting was fantastic. Neither the camera or the photographer had that much to do with shot (other than being there at dusk which was deliberate).

I would probably do better with post production now (dodging the front of the foremost rock, it's a little in shadow) but otherwise the photo is good, taken with a 6Mpx camera with dreadful high ISO noise. It's still a sharp shot which has stood up really well to being printed to this size.

We really are spoilt by what is available now, it truly is not about the camera unless you are shooting at the extreme edges (Long distance wildlife, long distance sports, ???)

Posted by jk: Sat Jan 12th, 2013 11:16

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My current screen background taken in March 2008 looking the other way from your picture just before sunset.

Attachment: Screen shot 2013-01-12 at 17.15.37.jpg (Downloaded 20 times)

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Posted by Eric: Sat Jan 12th, 2013 19:43

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richw wrote:
I agree. Took the $728 (including lens) Sony RX100 today to a famous ally way here (famous for it's graffiti, will post some pictures later). I was surrounded by folk (lots of them) wielding DSLR's, some even with tripods.

I felt quite sorry for them all, my camera was small, discrete, ego free and slipped into my pocket as I walked away and popped into a nice local Tapas restaurant.

Will they have taken better photos than me? Maybe, but not because of the camera they were wielding. Watching them one or two seemed to have a different idea, a dead flower in the foreground, one girl climbed into a window to take a shot from a different angle (I got a shot of her doing this). On the whole they were probably taking a lot more time to get the same shot as me, and I'm sure mine will hold up IQ wise, and I went through a lot quicker than anybody else (an inpatient wife can influence this).

Maybe I need the expensive D3s with selected expensive 2.8 lenses at home not to feel intimidated by the the DSLRs, whilst I'm walking around with a P&S, but maybe I've just grown up.

Of course the Sony RX100 isn't the same as a P&S that was available 2 years ago, so maybe I'm just ahead of the curve.

Part of me has for some time cringed at DSLRs.

I have lugged my D3 to shoots only to encounter 'the boss's son' taking snaps of the same product with a Casio, Sony or Panasonic compact. Sure( fortunately) my results were superior, but increasingly, as compacts improved, it was the operators lack of technique that made most of the difference.

I am sure, given his camera, I could have approached the results of my D3 ....probably close enough for most clients.

The phrase " it ain't what you got, it's the way that you use it" springs to mind.

I cringed, not just because of all the hardware I apparently needed, but because in some ways digital photography could be paralleling personal computers.

We look back at the computers of 30+years ago, filling rooms, and see them now. The power and compactness of things like the iPad.

So you could regard the DSLR as almost Dickensian! Certainly people in 30 years time will!

Just like 'compact' computers, the development of 'compact' cameras requires a change in approach, maybe even compromise.

But then, one wonders if photography will still be an artistic hobby in 30 years time. Or just 'event recording' on our personal recording devices.

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Posted by richw: Sun Jan 13th, 2013 03:28

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This was the chick with DSLR who climbed up into the window frame. I've added the rest of the Graffiti shots to my album.

Posted by jk: Sun Jan 13th, 2013 04:13

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Interesting image. Like the human element in the midst of all of the anonymous graffiti.

I find it interesting that people of a certain age (younger) tend to compose image on DSLR back screen rather than use the viewfinder.

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Posted by richw: Sun Jan 13th, 2013 04:51

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jk wrote:
Interesting image. Like the human element in the midst of all of the anonymous graffiti.

I find it interesting that people of a certain age (younger) tend to compose image on DSLR back screen rather than use the viewfinder.
I think she was Chimping but I know what you mean. One of the guys who was trying to get a shot of a truly awful dead flower in the foreground of his image was doing all his composition on a flip out screen, might have been a D5?00 but I didn't look too closely.

I you're ever in Melbourne there is an awsome Tapas restaurant in this alleyway.

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