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I think this some of this is actually forced upon us by technological advancement too. I started doing photography over the pandemic, I started with a 2009 dsl
by great_psy 4y ago
I think this some of this is actually forced upon us by technological advancement too.
I started doing photography over the pandemic, I started with a 2009 dslr, because that’s what I had lying around.
Because I did not even know how to expose a photo, it was great, and it felt like it did everything I wanted. I was very used to the layout, the functions, and although it was only 12MP, it took some of my favourite photos. All with lenses worth <300$.
Later I received a new mirrorless, 4K shooting, 24MP camera.
I changed brands, So some of it is on me, but I had to buy new lenses as well.
Getting new $150 lenses was not possible, and it felt wrong to put $150 lens on a $2000 camera.
So I got a few lenses to match. Not only that, but my 2012 MacBook Air was not able to run the latest Lightroom, and the older Lightroom version I had was not able to decode the new raw image format.
So I had to get a new computer as well.
All in all, a gift, that although is very much appreciated, cost me a lot more than the gift itself.
I have no regrets now, the newer sensors, the better tracking, the better lenses, all allow me to take much better photos. But if I would have stayed with my old camera, I would have never known what I was missing.
- mo_42 4y agoSounds more like technology-related reasons to buy stuff. Specifically, non-existing standards. Not sure if it’s part of the Diderot Effect.
- lynx23 4y agoMusicians, esp. guitarists have a special acronym for this state of mind: GAS, Gear Acquisition Syndrome.
- peepee1982 4y agoIn my mind studio owners are the main group who suffer from this. There are so few pieces of gear that will significantly improve your work compared to using the stuff you already have and know how to use. But people still spend a fortune on all kinds of hardware and software in the fear of missing out on some magical device that will give them a shortcut to great results. It's mental.
- The_Colonel 4y agoThe exact same term is common among photographers as well.
- lynx23 4y agoThere is no way around the 10000 hour rule. No money can buy you experience. But newcomers seem to fall for this regularily.
- woah 4y agoDon't come to San Francisco
- great_psy 4y agoI was not planing to move there, maybe just visit someday. But I am curious where this is going …
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- tasuki 4y agoI had a DSLR camera which was very good in 2005, yet when I bought a 2012 mirrorless, I was born away. It isn't about the megapixels, the staggering difference is the high ISO performance. I just met someone with a new full frame mirrorless, a very expensive camera. The shooting experience use worlds apart: huge luxurious viewfinder, fast autofocus with face tracking, it's a monster. But at the end of the day, if I put in the work with my 2012 camera paired with a cheap but great manual focus Samyang 85mm f/1.4 I'll get almost the same results.
- great_psy 4y agoYea you can get very good results with older cameras. You only see the difference when you really push it to the limits of what a camera can do: Low light, in flight bird photography, sports, high dynamic range etc