A bit harsh and snarky, but true. I shoot a lot. I have an apartment full of cameras, dating from the 50s all the way through the present. I've shot everything

A bit harsh and snarky, but true. I shoot a lot. I have an apartment full of cameras, dating from the 50s all the way through the present. I've shot everything from fuzzy shitty optics from the post-war years all the way to extremely expensive primes made last year. And it is the last thing that matters when you're looking to take good pictures. Your understanding of light, timing, subject matter, and composition will take you miles further than paying thrice the price for something marginally sharper. Unfortunately the vast majority of photography discussion online is not really about "photography" so much as it is "photographic equipment appreciation". For these people it stopped being about the images and is all about the scientific pursuit of optical capture. They spend more time shooting test charts than shooting outside, and when they do get outside it's pictures of bark (to compare sharpness and contrast!) or pictures of flowers (look at the bokeh!). This blog post is no different. Discussion about photography (you know, the art form, where it's about the picture and not the gear you took the picture with) is actually very hard to find online. I've only really had good luck finding offline communities to get my photo fix.