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There’s a saying in the photography world: ”The best camera is the one you have on you”
by master_crab 1y ago
There’s a saying in the photography world:
”The best camera is the one you have on you”
- throw0101d 1y ago> ”The best camera is the one you have on you” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chase_Jarvis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chase_Jarvis
- dingaling 1y agoWhich only holds true if you don't care much about the result. I've seen people trying to take photos at an airshow using their phone camera. A small black dot in the centre of frame, rendered as an Impressionist oil smudge by post-processing. Was that worth even trying? The best camera+lens combo is the one suited to the scene. Anything else isn't.
- rafram 1y agoNot really, because the scene you want to capture is there at that moment and probably wouldn’t be there anymore if you went back to the apartment/hotel/camera store and swapped out for a technically better kit. That’s what the “best camera” saying is about.
- amarshall 1y agoThe point is: who cares what the “best” camera is if one doesn’t have it with them to take a photo of the fleeting moment anyway?
- watwut 1y agoBut if you snap that pic, but never use it for anything because it looks slightly weird ... then you as well might not have the camera.
- bombcar 1y agoI always take a few snaps at events like that - not to capture the picture, but to capture the moment in my “digital memory” - if I’m on the ball, I later get some of the “official photos” and add those; but the phone camera snaps remind me that I was there, which turns out to be surprisingly useful.
- illiac786 1y agoI feel it’s still better than nothing, hence the saying holds true for me. “Best” does not imply “good”.