> The former camera was not adequate for the photographs i wanted to take; this one is. Right, but that doesn't necessarily comment on its effectiveness as a t

> The former camera was not adequate for the photographs i wanted to take; this one is. Right, but that doesn't necessarily comment on its effectiveness as a tool to assist in learning how to take good photographs. > An interesting point is that a 40-year-old film camera would also have been adequate, although much less helpful in other ways. This is more in line with what I'm getting at. There are perfectly good (even great) cameras out there, but there are cameras that are better suited to helping you get up to facilitating the learning process, and others that will hamper it. While perhaps not the most essential component of the learning process, they still kind of matter and are a perfectly reasonable aspect for someone to discuss.