Sobering point

With all the excitements and hysteria of all good/bad and pre-production sample images, I have come to a thread started in the Nikon forum.

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1021&message=24708817

When has photography became a subject of resolution, fps, body price and so forth?

As this is a unmoderated gear-oriented review site, it is not unusual to find zealous discussion of all above metioned, but I think Sony SLR forum need to mature up.

Anyway, I am very excited about the new release of the Sony DSLR line up, not because I am going to buy one, but because it means that some day when my two 5Ds break down, I would have chance to buy a DSLR.

One of my joy in photography is that without spending a lot of money, I can make images to my feelings and tastes at the end of day. I sip my coffee in front of my 22 Inch CRT monitor and enjoy what I have captured that day.

Perhaps when I have enough money, then I might put an exhibition, but until then my 6MP pixel camera that can comfortably produce 3000 x 2000 pixel into my 1600 x 1200 pixel monitor.

My current goal is to shape and mould light into human subjects at my budget.

Anyway, I am driving down to a beach today to take pictures of Gannet colony with my new 300mm 2.8 lens with x2 TC and might capture sunset as it is going to set in three hours.

The thread talks about bodies....well digital to me has changed the perspective as you are not just buying the features of the new body and all the fun bells and whistles you are also investing in the new sensor and processor that will have a big impact on your pictures.

Back shooting film yes I enjoyed shooting my Maxxum 7 more than my Maxxum 5 as it did have more bells and whistles, but using the same lens and same film I got the same results from the Maxxum 5 and Maxxum 7. So the body itself with film had less to do with the end result with film than digital as it was more dependant on the lens and medium used.

Of course if you were shooting sports the higher FPS and better AF helped on film bodies, but there again people were getting those shots before AF...

Darrin
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these are primarily forums to discuss gear. Most of these forums are titled and discuss the camera bodies or lenses for certain brands. What equipment, lenses, accessories to buy, and problems with equipment, and hints for said equipment.

There is an Open Talk forum here that mainly only has talk about equiment though. There are forums on different sites that discuss photography