How many have switched makes?

[happysnapper64]

How many have invested heavily into a brand, then sold it all & switched makes? If you, like myself, have a good few £K worth of say, Canon gear & you saw another brands cameras & lenses etc, were now more to your liking, would you sell up & switch? My own answer would be NO. Although I am forever looking at the latest gear, I feel I have come too far to jump ship now. What would persuade you to switch? I am talking non pro here.

 

[Amamba]

Not everybody has pink skin. In fact only the fairest skinned people do so how does Canon do for other skin tones?

 

[Malikknows]

How many have invested heavily into a brand, then sold it all & switched makes? If you, like myself, have a good few £K worth of say, Canon gear & you saw another brands cameras & lenses etc, were now more to your liking, would you sell up & switch? My own answer would be NO. Although I am forever looking at the latest gear, I feel I have come too far to jump ship now. What would persuade you to switch? I am talking non pro here.

 

[bosjohn21]

as a registered photofloosie I don't need no stinking reason to change systems and I do it a lot. but over the years it seems I always come back to having along with all the other cameras at least one Leica M. Right now I have close to the fewest cameras I have ever owned four working digital cameras and one working film camera.

 

[Ontario Gone]

These days any random brand of dslr camera exceeds my artistic and technological ability, so why switch?

What does this even mean? How can one quantify and compare a human being's "ability" to see, identify, judge, time, with the cameras plastic, glass and metal moving parts? I mean is there really that much to using a camera? You compose the shot, you take the photo. Your part is pointing at the right thing at the right time, the camera's part is locking focus quickly and giving you the best IQ possible.

How is locking faster or more accurately exceeding you? How is less noise exceeding you? More dynamic range? If anything a lesser camera might hold you back, causing you to miss shots bc it was too slow, or delivering a shot that's just a bit too noisy bc it had an old sensor. There seem to be a group of people who think it's clever to talk about people vs camera, but I've yet to hear exactly what that means.

The camera isn't some magical fairy gift from the clouds, it's a tool. If you don't know how to use it, yea, getting one better won't help much. But are they really that hard to figure out? learn the exposure triangle, then work on finding nice things to point at. Aside from that you work on your "eye", that's all we can do. Aside from that, making the cameras better is the only way to improve our results. Faster AF will always be better. Less noise will always be better. None of these things are "beyond me" as the operator.

Did I unknowingly wander into some weird modesty cult?

 

[happysnapper64]

Phenixburn, I have given you the "Thumbs-up" Because i agree with what you say. My thread was based on mere idle curiosity as I have no intention of moving on to another brand. I started my photographic "education" just 3 years ago with a 600D/T3i. I changed to the 7D for medical reasons & have loved it for 2 years now. I have a couple of EF lenses, including the 70-200f/4 IS L & 100f/2.8 macro & a recently purchased 85 1.8. Throw in a couple of Sigmas. The only new gear I would consider for the future, is perhaps the 5D3. For now I am happy with what I have.

 

[SonyForNow]

Canon FD to Minolta AF to Sony dslr to M4/3. Still have the Canon FD stuff.

 

[digitallollygag]

happysnapper64 wrote: How many have invested heavily into a brand, then sold it all & switched makes?

I only made 2 Major Shift in my 8 years of photography. (1) Selling of Sony Minolta system to switch to Canon in 2007, and (2) Selling off all my Canon gears (4 camera + 14+ lens) and gone mirrorless in 2012. My conclusion that it is a fool's errant to INVEST in any system (its a trap!).

Today, I am LENS FOCUS rather than Camera System Focused. I'll buy whatever LENS I NEED @its best price regardless of the system. For example, I wanted a Fast Normal Prime (50mm FF equivalent) and I price shop across systems on Amazon.com.

• $598 Panasonic 25mm f/1.4
• $500 Fuji 35mm f/1.4
• $448 Sony 35mm f/1.8 OSS
• $399 Olympus 25mm f/1.8
• $197 Nikon 35mm f/1.8 G

Having gone mirrorless, I really didn't care to buy another DSLR. However, it is hard to argue against paying just $197 for a Nikon 35/1.8 that is 1/3 the price of a $598 Panasonic 25mm f/1.4. I pickup a used Nikon 3100 for $150. The total price is still cheaper than buying a single lens. Camera body are CHEAP in the used market, many used Sony NEX, and DSLR can be have for around $100~$150. At that price, why bother TIED yourself into "any" system?

Yours may be the most logical approach of all.

 

[happysnapper64]

How many have invested heavily into a brand, then sold it all & switched makes? If you, like myself, have a good few £K worth of say, Canon gear & you saw another brands cameras & lenses etc, were now more to your liking, would you sell up & switch? My own answer would be NO. Although I am forever looking at the latest gear, I feel I have come too far to jump ship now. What would persuade you to switch? I am talking non pro here.