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A potentially daft question

Started Mar 28, 2021 | Questions thread
neilt3
neilt3 Veteran Member • Posts: 3,008
Nothing wrong with Minolta , Canon , Nikon , Pentax etc...

Some of the reasons to buy a premium camera is for the build quality and satisfaction in using a well engineered piece of kit .

That's not going to make any noticeable difference to the images you produce from it .

If the lenses you have are good quality and in good condition , they will give you good results .

I started with Minolta with the Minolta 7000AF long before digital was around and still use Minolta lenses on my Sony A mount gear along with manual focus gear from the SR to X models .

I also have a lot of other cameras , 35mm , medium format and large format .

Even my pinhole camera has it's place .

If your buying into such as Leica , your buying into a different photography experience , especially being a rangefinder camera rather than SLR .

But don't expect the resulting pictures to be different from your current kit on an image quality basis .

Your style of shooting might change , rangefinder or medium format SLR , large format especially etc tends to make you work a different way to 35mm SLR .

You might prefer the results you get , but that would be down to how you worked rather than because of the name on the camera or lens you were using .

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