My experiences of camera viewing systems Locked

pentaust wrote:

As far as I'm concerned, I came to realize that vast majority of people tend to focus on details when selecting a camera tool, rather than raising head and seeing the big picture from a higher level. And focusing on camera gear aspect is a hint that the photographer concerned about camera tech still has a lots of room to improve his photograph if he would be forgetting his concerns about camera gear technology. Over the years, I have looked at photographs from people obsessed with camera gear, and those photographs, while technically correct, were far from impressive on an artistic level.

This is so true. people seem to get obsessed with owning certain types of equipment and especially lenses but have no idea what they actually want to do with them, they buy them without a purpose and then grub around looking for excuses to use them, invariably ending up with technically perfect yet dull and generic images of kittens or aeroplanes.

Again, as far as I'm concerned, I came to the conclusion that the difference between brands of the same camera format are not cost effective, i.e. you don't get much bangs for your bucks by switching brands for the same camera format, and you get much more bangs for your bucks by selecting the format that suit your need regardless of the brand , with or without mirror.

Again, very true. Over the years I've acquired a small arsenal of lenses and no way could I afford to replace them for the luxury of changing systems. Especially when I'm perfectly happy with my KP. Not all of us have the unlimited financial resources to chop and change as much as some.

But, that being said, it's great that most people spent full blown camera kit money on newer camera models of the same format for a few minor differences, because this is what help the camera industry rolling. Useful or not, money must be spent to keep the economy alive and keep us employed. For the sake of business, it's important that the buyer believe spending money will improve his photography, even if it doesn't.

Now, myself looking at things from a higher systems level standpoint, I don't buy new gear, I save tons of money and I still obtain the photographic results I like , and I do so without spending money on equipment. On the other hand, I realized that spending the money on travel and planning gets me the photographs that I'd never get by spending the same money on camera upgrades.

Agreed, much of my kit has been purchased used.

For me, the location, subject matter and light are of the highest importance, camera format come second as it defines image quality and how large to print at given quality.

Exactly, it's about the image.

And I didn't find that the presence or absence of mirror in my camera makes much difference in my photographic results, basically I don't care if the camera has a mirror or not, how camera manages to capture what I see is not my job, it's the job of camera makers to give me a took that works as intended.

true

So, even if I had money to waste, I'd not waste it on buying new cameras for the sake of knowing that there is no mirror inside the camera. If I had money to waste, I'd waste it on a larger format system.

Yes I'd love to upgrade to a medium format digital camera, most of my film photography was taken using Mamiya RB 67 cameras and I'd love to get that feel in digital but that's never going to happen for me. The best I can aspire to is full frame.

Some renown professional photographer said "the camera is just a metal box designed to capture what you see". And I think that statement is true.

It is.