I disagree. While beginner to intermediate and non musicians may admire a purely technical player, especially since a musical instrument is infinitely more difficult to master than a camera, to be admired by peers and knowledgeable non musicians a musician must master the creative aspects of music as well and that is a process that never ends.
If you expect everything in every photo to be in focus all the time, use a iPhone 11 in normal mode. Otherwise do web searches on depth of field of different image sensor/film format sizes.
You're falling into that trap of seeing a single sample photo, not knowing who shot it, how they processed it or what their intended results were... and thinking "my _____ could do better than that".
Classically trained on trumpet (though really went down the jazz/funk/pop stream, and did some pit orchestra work), taught myself keyboard and EWI. I haven't played the trumpet now in 10 years, and actually gave up on all music about 2.5 years ago when I left the music school I worked for to become a full time photographer. Now that there's no photography going on, I'm back doing some music writing and production. I'm glad I didn't throw away my old studio computer. It's a Dell desktop from 2009, but still very capable of some complex arrangements. I have thousands invested in virtual instruments (it used to be my GAS), most of which was non-transferrable/sellable.
I think most people buy the stick on grip for that very reason. When I bought my RX100M1 8 years ago one of the first things I bought was the grip and it made a huge difference in the handling. The grip and the included wrist strap make carrying the camera easy. Why Sony doesn't include it with the camera is a mystery because at $14 they certainly aren't making much money on it?
Yes, contorting the fingers was the thing I couldn't get past. I also had some arthritic symptoms with my hands that didn't help. I'm not sure I would ever have really mastered it. The string offsets never really made sense for me coming from both trumpet and piano which both have a more linear note selection method.
Guitars are tuned in 4ths which makes scales and chords easier to play. Starting on the E or A string both major and minor scales can be played over 3 strings without changing your position. There is one way a guitar is easier than keyboards. No matter where you start the pattern is the same no matter what key you are in. With keyboards every key has different finger patterns. One advantage with stringed instruments is you can use different tunings so you are not stuck with the standard way of doing it.
Ok, I missed that. As I said, I only skimmed. I was going by the equipment you mentioned using.
But those results you desire will only come from a dedicated camera. Same reason John 5 plays a Tele and not a Ukulele. But.. he plays many different Teles and gets the same great results.
Great. Enjoy it and good luck.
You see, I'd disagree. Well, it depends on your age, I guess. It's a lot easier to manipulate your fingers when you're younger, but, to be honest, if you learn just a few basic chords at the 'folky' end of the guitar, the first few frets, you're on your way to playing Bob Dylan's entire repertoire (Happy Birthday, Bob!). Learn a few barre chords and you've nailed most of Status Quo's hits. Things become interesting when you attempt to play at what we call the 'dusty end', for the solos and twiddly bits! You see most used guitars with all the wear on the frets at the other end and after say the 5th fret, the neck's pristine.
I don't disagree with that... at least not entirely. As a musician (an intermediate, if I'm being kind, amateur) and big time fan, I'm much more interested in the creative side rather than the kind of players who may be virtuosos, but who's style isn't particularly original. I'm a big fan of Brian Eno a guy who's been super influential in the music and yet claims that he has only the most rudimental instrumental skills (I think that he undersells himself though). Then there's a certain class of musicians who though they aren't on Eno's level of genius are able to make a living by having the technical expertise to be great mimics, without any kind of creative imagination whatsoever... think cover bands...
